Om Malik Quotes

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.

Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.

Nothing affects people's lives who go in and out of New York more than their commute. It is unavoidable, and it must be done every day.

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.

Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.