Jim Sterling is a television producer and writer.
A native of Boulder, Colorado, Sterling moved to California in 1988 to attend Pepperdine University. After graduation, he worked at 20th Century Fox as production assistant. Later he acted, wrote and produced the independent film Gunplay (1994), a dark comedy which became a cult favorite through minimal German distribution.
Following several stints as a researcher and writer's assistant, Sterling worked as a production assistant on the L.A. Law television series (1994). Since then he has collaborated on selected TV-series, including Space: Above and Beyond (1995), Three (1998), L.A. Doctors (1998), The Practice (2001–2002), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2003–2005), Numb3rs (2005) and The Bronx is Burning (2007).
Famous quotes containing the words jim and/or sterling:
“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)
“[Research has found that] ... parents whose children were “baby altruists” by two years firmly prohibited any child aggression against others. Adults not only restated their rule against hitting, for example, but they let the little one know that they would not tolerate the child hurting another.”
—Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)