LA all the way

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

— Agnes Varda

'The Real Housewives of Miami' only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A.

— Joanna Krupa

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

— Jason Whitlock

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

— Greta Gerwig

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,…

— Gillian Flynn

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city…

— Everlast

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

— Milan Kundera

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be…

— Ford Madox Ford

We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.

— Beau Biden

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

— Leni Zumas