- He is a big fan of the art critic Federico Zeri, of the writer Luigi Pirandello and of the director Paolo Sorrentino.
- He is Buddhist and Christian (according to Eugen Drewermann and Carlo Maria Martini). His Vipassana Meditation teacher is prof. Corrado Pensa (dir. Ameco - Rome). When Otto sings in church he changes the words of the hymns freely, thinking more about the Resurrection than about death.
- He kept eleven parrots in his studio. He shared this passion with his partner Fabio, a young 3D animator and painter. The first work they produced together is L'impero dei pappagalli (1994) with two musical videos (Take six and Lucio Dalla) made with Maya.
- In the decades when Otto lived in Rome in the "palazzo" of Trastevere in an apartment attached to that of the Americanist Fernanda Pivano they had a couple of parrots Cacatoa (teto and Iside), a pair of Eclectus, a yellow-headed amazon, a krameris, a pair of squirrels and a pair of angora rabbits that moved between the books and a big cage built on the terrace. Ottavio described this atmosphere in Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001).
- In 2001 the americanist Fernanda Pivano declared that his Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) (written together) was not a documentary about her work but a scandalous "Madrigal of Love". Bernardo Bertolucci saved its participation in 19° Torino Cinema Festival and Rosati replied to Pivano with Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) and with the hypertext "Quattro Decenni di Plays" (plays.it/ipod).
- A woman (scriptwriter for Television) who was his lover, has revealed him that he is the father of a girl who works in the theater, looks like him and knows nothing about him.
- He likes to play with anagrams. And transform his last name Rosati in: satiro (satyr), storia (history) and Satori. And also: trio sa (the trio knows); sa tori (he knows bulls); si rota (we change); so arti (I know arts).
- After participating in La Moreno che tutti sanno chi è (1986) at the Carignano Theater in Turin, Zerka Toeman Moreno defined Ottavio Rosati as one of the most important directors in the history of psychodrama. Rosati was 36 years old.
- Zerka Toeman Moreno has chosen as a cover of her autobiography the photo where she is starring between puppets on the stage of the event that Rosati realized for her in Teatro Flaiano in Rome. It was about Pirandello's play "Tonight we improvise".
- Laura Carassai on La Stampa defined his program Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) as the theatrical and television success of the year.
- In 2002 he received the medal of the University of Catania for the role of J. L. Moreno in Fantasmi al Valle (2012) for the play "Fantasmi" by Ezio Donato with Leo Gullotta. For the direction of this play and his interpretation of the role of Jacob Levi Moreno Rosati also won the 2012 Luigi Pirandello Award.
- The composer Sylvano Bussotti awarded him the Giacomo Puccini Award for his essay "Clinica Turandot" at the 1983 Torre del Lago Puccini Festival. Rosati was 33 years old.
- In the Nineties, after the success of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) he refused to collaborate in the production of reality show as "Grande Fratello", which he evaluated a different kind of reality remote and almost opposite to psychodrama.
- In the nineties he was betrayed by dr. Hide, one of his analysts, who seduced Fabio, the young Ottavio's partner of that moment. Rosati answered twenty years later (after the death of this analyst, father of an intelligent writer) with the short I cani dell'acqua marcia (2018). In 2019 Fabio apologized and Rosati forgave both. Even when Fabio revealed that some sexual sessions happened in Ottavio's house.
- He likes Toscany and the Palio of Siena the Big Feast of animals, men and 'contrade' that goes on in August for days. He made with Luciana Santioli and the cacatoa Teto and Iside the socioplay Il rischio della felicità (2011) (The Risk of Happiness) which culminates in Piazza del Campo where the horses run in Ferragosto.
- To finance the Specialization School in Psychodrama and Psicocinema (MIUR: Italian University) he sold the chalet in Abruzzo he had bought with Rai's fee for Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991).
- The Parish of the Basilica of S. Maria in Trastevere, Don Matteo Zuppi (Cardinal from October 2019) during the production of The Dickens Christmas Carol - First TV socioplay (2006) authorized him to take communion dressed as Charles Dickens. In homage to the Franciscan spirit of Love for Nature and Animals, Rosati has always entered in the Trastevere churches with his two parrots Cacatoa Alba on the shoulders and they followed the function with dignity and respect. The only time a priest was scandalized and ordered: "Go Out!", he has remained in his place, saying: "We stay! You think to San Francesco and concentrate on the Mass". Usually many present and at the exit, came to caress Teto and Iside who 'in Perfetta Letizia' opened the crest saying "Ciaaaao", giving people moments and images of Joy.
- In 2018 he asked to Joshua Held to realize the animated logo of Plays with four Cacatoa Alba parrots.
- For reason connected to the story of Don Romeo, the benefactor of his family, Rosati consider one of the most powerful moments of Rome, Open City (1945) the expression 'Vammoriammazzato' addressed by Anna Magnani to a German soldier. According to critics, this moment takes your breath away and remains in the air, tragically like a final sentence.
- Luciana Sica on "La Repubblica" called him 'the first director-writer to come from Psychoanalysis as well as Nelo Risi from Medicine and Luciano de Crescenzo from Engineering.
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