Jamila Woods Quotes

I love driving in the city at night.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

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.

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.

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

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!'

I've always liked lost, old New York.

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

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

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

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.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

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

When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.

Being in New York, I have fallen in love with walking and listening to podcasts.

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

I miss Mumbai when I'm not here. The city does that to you, and it's exciting.

For whatever reason I love big-city skylines. I've always been fascinated by them.

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

The need to express yourself in Los Angeles makes the city so vibrant. If I lived here, it would be lovely to be in a cool new high-rise looking out over a city that is exploding.