New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.
New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.
I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.
People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.
I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.
New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
I'm home in New Orleans!
Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.
Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.
Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.
