Quotessence
Home / Authors / Tamlyn Tomita

Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

Film actress

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleThinkingTryingFilmFilmmakerKindMeanOpportunityHelpingLuckySpeakWorldAutismBeautifulBrainCharacterCommunityDifferentIndependentIndividual

Famous Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

“We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their families, their parents were back home in American prison camps. It's savagely ironic that between themselves and the African-American soldiers, who were also segregated and didn't see the fruition of the work the culminated in the Civil Rights Act until the '60s, that these American heroes and their stories are not well known; and the fact that the 442nd/100th became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.”

WorldWarHomeFightingParentHeroPrisonSoldierCivil RightsWar Of The WorldsIronicWorld War IiWorld War IWell KnownAmerican Soldier
Author:Tamlyn Tomita
Create image

“Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.'”

PeopleThinkingWorldHelpingFilmDesireLet MeIndependentFilmmakerYounger Generation
Author:Tamlyn Tomita
Create image

“We've got to learn from each other. We have to put ourselves out there, we want to pull the other up because we want/should pull the other line up as we all have strengths and weaknesses and together we make a stronger group, family, community, world. And so it becomes a beautiful idea that can be practiced in that dealing with a person with autism can be...It's just different. It's not weird.”

WorldDifferentTogetherBeautifulCommunityWeaknessStrongerAutismHaving Strength
Author:Tamlyn Tomita
Create image