Jim Otto Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
-
All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
-
It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
-
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
-
I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
-
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
-
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
-
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.
-
It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.
-
It's later than it's ever been.
-
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
-
I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
-
And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.
-
You don't have to you change yourself for somebody else to like you.
-
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
-
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
-
If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.
-
Nothing ages like laziness.
-
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
-
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
-
En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!
-
You have to stay one level above everyone else.
