J.J. Abrams connects with Media Lab

MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and famed filmmaker J.J. Abrams experienced what you might call a Vulcan mind meld yesterday.

Abrams took a tour of the lab and then Ito interviewed him in front of a packed audience. It was during their chat that the two men seemed to hit it off — and realize that the Media Lab has some creative similarities to Abrams' production company Bad Robot, where they don't always know how the story will end.

"What this place does is that it opens and expands your mind, opens doors that you weren't even aware existed," Abrams said. "I've never felt dumber at any moment in my life (than when touring the lab)."

An Emmy award-winning director whose list of film credits includes "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III," "Super 8" and the TV series "Lost," Abrams, 46, seemed to suggest a collaboration with the lab, a future-obsessed, unorthodox research facility.

"I am excited about finding ways of working with MIT," Abrams said at one point.

Yet for all his talk about opening doors, anyone who had hoped Abrams would open up about the puzzling series finale of "Lost" would have been disappointed to learn that he didn't play a part in the ending.

Abrams said that although he helped create the series, he was working on other projects during the production of the finale, which was widely panned for failing to tie up a series of loose ends created during the show's six seasons of alt-reality, sci-fi mystery.

"What I love about what he did," Abrams said of his co-creator Damon Lindelof, "was I think he answered the emotion of the show."

Abrams added, "I know people are frustrated because they want the physical answers. But there was a truth to what he did."

Ito asked Abrams for his thoughts on the Media Lab's unique operating model, in which they receive funding for open-ended projects. "You can't tell the Media Lab what to do," Ito said, adding "we don't do work for hire. You have to treat us like an artist."

Abrams described a similar philosophy at Bad Robot, where they "don't storyboard everything to death."

"We don't know exactly how it's gonna end up. But we believe in it," Abrams said.

How does Abrams decide when to take what he calls "that leap of faith" on a project? He says he has a singular criteria: It has to give him "the chills."

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