Busy Streets Quotes

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

It's very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don't say 'Hi' to everyone you meet, and you don't smile to everyone you meet, because there's just so many. Which is also very strange.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

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

I can't stand the slow pace of Jaipur anymore. I like staying in Mumbai, as everyone is on the move.

I hate, hate Times Square!

I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

From a filmmaker's point of view, there is something undeniably cinematic about a location like Santa Monica Boulevard, which is so chaotic and busy and over-stimulating.

Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it's believable.

In big cities, things go by too fast.

Everyone's great in New York, but it's family-oriented. I don't get bothered.

I don't come to London very often.

Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived-in' look. It's alive, it's vibrant, it's a little bit dirty, it's busy, and I loved it. I felt like this was how Rome would probably have been 2,000 years ago. There's a real bustle, and it's down and dirty.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

New York City is crazy; there are people everywhere. New York is the best city in the world, I think. You have everything there.