James Ellroy Quotes

I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.

You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh. I'm just gonna deliver scripts or fly out, like, once, then fly back." You have to make a full commitment. You have to actually get on a plane, come to L.A., rent a place, and live there. And that's how you forge your career. Not just sort of haphazardly. Once you've got a few hits under your belt, assuming you do, then go back and move away and correspond with the studio.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

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

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

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.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

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

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I love Los Angeles. I love Seattle, too, which is where we have our home. But the notion of spending a lot of time in Los Angeles has been exciting to me for years. The community down there is great.

Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.

When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The cold weather really did not agree with me. When I moved back down to L.A. at 16, I felt like it was home - it was where I belonged.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.

One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.

I knew it was going to take a lot for me to leave my situation in Atlanta. We feel very good here. We love the city.

My parents moved to Los Angeles before I was born and built a beautiful home here in Bel Air.

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 had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.