John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.