Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

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• I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• I love recording music.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Recording

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fathers

• When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • You
  • Mean
  • Practice

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Execution

• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Style
  • Sorry
  • Personal

• My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Anger

• I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Training
  • Baseball

• Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Why
  • Feel
  • Show

• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Enemy

• Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Solitude
  • Give
  • Apply

• I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be about to have sex with a beautiful girl and I'll say, 'Sorry darling, I'm fighting in a few weeks.' That's control, bro, when you're turning down a hot chick in your subconscious.

  

  David Haye
  • Girl
  • Control
  • Dreams

• So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lucky

• Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Show
  • Vampire
  • American TV