City Culture Quotes

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.

Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think you need to live there when you're in your 20s - when you can be poor and energetic and just don't care.

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London is the cultural metropolis of the early 21st century.

Chicago is a wonderful, vibrant city with wonderful food cultures to it, wonderful talent downtown.

I'm still in love with New York. It's like a dream: there's so much to do, so much culture.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

New York is the last true city.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me being in Atlanta now, I stay in Atlanta, and I get to see everybody work with everybody no matter what.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.