Abstract Quote by Esperanza Spalding

I loved growing up in Portland because I'm not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city... It was a very…

— Amine

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there…

— Isaac Brock

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

— Elliott Smith

Once my family grew bigger I loved Portland more.

— Rasheed Wallace

I grew up in front of a TV.

— Jemaine Clement

I grew up in the suburbs.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up…

— Art Alexakis

I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.

— Martine Syms

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

— Katherine Dunn

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's…

— DJ Qualls

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

— Leni Zumas

Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit.

— Travis Knight