Quotes About Urban

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I love being ankle deep in conversations about sewers and potholes. That's where my heart has always been, and city government has the chance to get it right on both.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

Madrid is a big city. It's very dynamic and cosmopolitan.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.

Yes, I would love to step outside the costume drama category and play a young urbanite, something closer to who I am.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

I'm very much half city and half country boy.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd leave.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

The shock I had, from moving from L.A. to New York, you know, whether you live in an apartment, whether you like to or not, it's cramped, it's crowded and it needs - guess what - a renovation.

New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.