Barry McGee Quotes

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

Good and bad make up a city.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

I live near Thompson Square Park, and there are a lot of colorful people I see in the park - a lot of different personalities and homeless people - you get to know them. And every now and then, there is suddenly someone who is no longer around, and you're just like, 'Wow,' but you never really know what happened to them.

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn't have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

You're supposed to be writing from experience - experience with people, with reading, seeing some homeless guy on the street and making up some story of him in your head. If you never see any of that or have those conversations or even sleep enough to have vivid dreams, then what are you writing about?

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands.

Neapolitan people are always outside. They are not in front of the television.

Honestly, I feel like people don't look at other people when they're walking around.

The high street is not a retail thing: it's a social thing, part of the British lifestyle. And I say that as someone who started his life on Limassol high street in Cyprus.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.