Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

I'm happy ever since stepping back to New York.

When I was living in New York, I tried to make it work for a year, but I didn't really have my own space to be creative. It was really inspiring, but I think that coming to L.A. has allowed me to take a breath.

I moved to New York at 17 to go to school. At 24, I moved back to Ithaca, then moved back to New York at 28.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood.

I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

It's always good to be back in New York, where everything started in my career.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.