Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

I don't feel like a Londoner.

I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.

Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

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?

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

I am definitely a west London girl.

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.

Cleveland is my hometown.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.