Noah Baumbach Quotes

I'm obsessed with New York. I want to marry it, maybe bear a few children with 42nd Street.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

It was always my dream to live in New York.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I'm from a really nice town. Full of nature, mountains, clean air, rock climbing. But I'd prefer New York City. I love the diversity here, the religions, the food - especially the food.

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

I've lived in New York City all my life. I love New York City; I've never moved from New York City. Have I ever thought about moving out of New York? Yeah, sure. I need about $10 million to do it right, though.

New York is my favorite city. I would love to move there one day.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.