I grew up half in South Central and half in the San…

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

— Elizabeth McGovern

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it…

— Edward Norton

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

— Jesse Plemons

I myself had lived in the San Fernando Valley many years ago, when it was a much wilder place, and we used to go…

— Virginia Dwan

I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, 'I'm…

— Stephen Dorff

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and…

— Douglas Sirk

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn't feel like L.A. It's a bit different. It's still L.A. County, but it's not…

— Flying Lotus

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into…

— Scott Borchetta

South Central is just who I am.

— Ice Cube

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

— Ice Cube

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in…

— Warren Moon

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

— Baron Davis

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

— Kehinde Wiley

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that…

— Jonathan Kozol

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out…

— Spencer Paysinger