Geographic Prejudice Quotes

There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

Sin is geographical.

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

China is a travesty of a place, and you should thank God every day that you weren't born there.