Edward Hopper Quotes

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

I love driving in the city at night.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'