Back Quote by Gary Payton

Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing…

— Moshe Kasher

Why do you talk to street trash like that?

— Killing Zoe

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

— Traylor Howard

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

— Fab Five Freddy

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I…

— Marielle Heller

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county…

— Jancee Dunn

My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to…

— Debra Granik

I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home…

— Brandon Adams

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to…

— Jonathan Lethem

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

— Alan Keyes

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got…

— Tom Perrotta

The streets - just to touch on this because I want to be open about it - I thought it was my only choice.…

— Jelly Roll