Character Quote by Steve Buscemi

I have a long history with Kansas City.

— Brad Feld

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made…

— Eli Roth

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

— Noah Baumbach

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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

I was called in from the producer, who was a guy who lived in Texas and an outsider in the film industry, and he…

— Joshua Michael Stern

One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.

— Herm Edwards

“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.”

— Raymond Chandler

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble.…

— Patricia Highsmith

Looking back at 'Taxi Driver' or, really, any of the Martin Scorsese films, he really filmed New York City in a way that I…

— Sam Esmail

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

— Tech N9ne

I'm actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for 'Dukes,' I told them I was from…

— John Schneider