“New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.” WayDoeCharacterStoriesNew YorkFunctionWoody Author:Radha Mitchell
“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.” TryingIdeasCharacterCitiesNew YorkIdentityLondonHotelVeniceSoho Author:Jean Nouvel
“In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.” CharacterInterestingNew York Author:Danny Pintauro
“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.” CharacterShowsFilmNew YorkBeing There Author:Hunter Parrish
“In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.” ThinkingRealWholeCharacterHurtKnownNew YorkCoupleCircumstancesShoesWhole LifeReal LifeBarefoot Author:Allison Williams
“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.” WorldFeelsBookCharacterShowsSchoolGirlCitiesNew YorkCollegeBrownGossipNew York CityReluctantYaleNyuGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.” WayYearsPlayCharacterHomeCitiesNew YorkStrikesNew York CityAmazedChekhov Author:Neil Simon
“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.” PeopleWorldCharacterStoriesFacesSongAliveStreetsNew YorkAdventureThousandPureIncrediblesBlockEncountersLos AngelesFewerAutomobile Author:Joni Mitchell
“Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the Parks and Recreation characters.” PeopleCharacterLandNew YorkTvsParksCynicalAirplaneParks And Rec Author:Chris Pratt
“Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.” PeopleIfsKnowsMayCharacterNew YorkShooting Author:Robin Williams
“Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.” YearsFirstsImportantCharacterNew YorkYouthPagesExcitingSevenMy TimeConsideringSeven YearsNotable Author:Jerry Robinson
“You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.” TryingCharacterReadingNew YorkDrawsAdultsMalesDisgustingToiletsNew York TimesAdorablePenguins Author:Bill Watterson
“I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.” StillsCharacterNew YorkDaughterMy DaughterAssaultZombieAirportsFlewZombieland Author:Woody Harrelson
“New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.” CharacterFilmActorsCitiesNew YorkShotsCharacter Actors Author:Jeffrey Wright
“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.” WayDoeBookEndsCharacterWaterFiveWeekNew YorkChangedSingingListsMainstreamNew York TimesSellersInsidersBest SellersHitchhikingTimes Have ChangedDuets Author:John Waters
“If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.” IfsWritingBookMomentsCharacterViewsLibertyNew YorkTradeStatuesWriting A BookIntegratingMain CharactersStatue Of Liberty Author:Richard Price
“Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.” YearsCharacterRememberBoysNew YorkYears AgoFishesHotelDedicatedRemember WhenMotorcycleRumbleMayflower Author:Mickey Rourke
“I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.” PlayCharacterNew YorkCollegeComfortableNakedNervesBroadwayNudity Author:Joe Manganiello
“New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.” CharacterFansHonestNew York Author:Victoria Azarenka
“Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.” KnowsWorldPersonsIdeasCharacterShowsGrowsNumbersWeekNew YorkMachinesSticksNew World Author:Jonathan Nolan
“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.” ThinkingMadeDifferentPlayCharacterRealitySchoolFatherMy OwnFantasyNew YorkBecomingActivityEverydayPhotographNineDocumentsEveryday LifeCostumesDifferent CharactersSchool Plays Author:Mariko Mori
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.” ThinkingBookSelfCharacterAnswersFictionCuttingNew YorkPersonalityNeededAddIncludingGenerousExplicitMatchingJuliusConcealing Author:Teju Cole
“Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna.” KnowsCharacterWifeProgressDyingNew YorkStudentsBrotherSceneNewspapersReportsHolidayComposerDescribingVenicePresentingViennaMahler Author:Philip Kitcher
“I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.” ThinkingYearsCharacterLightEarthUniverseStarsNew YorkCreatingLondonComing BackMixingLight YearsCreating Characters Author:Benjamin Clementine
“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.” IfsThinkingEnoughCharacterWould BeTurnsFictionJourneyNew YorkCircumstancesPagesSittingVery GoodMetaphorHeavyContemporaryMainstreamThinking About Life Author:Karan Bajaj