Ian MacKaye Quotes

Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

This [Washington DC] is a town of anecdotes.

There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. 'Company,' 'Life In A Metro,' 'Ek Chalis Ki Last Local' - they all have presented Mumbai in a different manner.

Delhi gives you a lot of love. Bombay people don't care much because it's usual for them to see a TV serial guy or a movie actor.

Chicago is a great city.

I really liked Glasgow. I really liked living there for a year. It's a very fun city, and it has a lot to offer young people who are interested in music and art. It's a very creative city.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

A flat black bug, that is London.

Maybe you just have those impromptu conversations, or where all of the sudden you're standing on the corner waiting to cross the street and you notice three people looking up and you look up with them. And you all smile at each other because you're seeing a little piece of a rainbow between two buildings, and that little rainbow and you all just shared a New York moment, and that's awesome, and then you keep on in your way.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.