Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.
New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.
New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.
Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.
New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
