Quotes About Metropolis

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I love the city of New York. It's kind of fun. I grew up in the country, so I'm getting a little change of pace. The city has been great.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

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 of being there.

New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.

strip of real estate than that—to the blocks immediately east, south and west of Central Park.

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

All of these cities and towns are, in a sense, suburbs of Los Angeles. . . . dominated by Los Angeles.

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

Delhi is the only city where I eat junk food.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

New Orleans, it was often observed, was the first American metropolis to build an opera house, but the last to build a sewage system.

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

In the looking, I found the cities within me.