Character Quote by Radha Mitchell

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a…

— Jonathan Levine

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for…

— Cord Jefferson

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

— Tom Waits

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature…

— Hunter Parrish

“That is what New York teaches: beginnings and endings; how to start a scene, and how to escape it.”

— John Weir

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice…

— Chad Harbach

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories…

— Keren Ann

“It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this. New York has very little to do with it. Now if it…

— William Dean Howells

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

— Mason Cooley

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to…

— Hari Kunzru