Nicholas Lea Quotes

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

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 could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.

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

I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.

There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

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.

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.

People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

I would never want to move to L.A.

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

I'm meant for California.

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

I think I'd work a little more if I lived in L.A.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.