Matthew Specktor Quotes About Los Angeles

Quotes about: Los Angeles

• You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Play, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

• I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

  Matthew Specktor

  Apology, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Problem, Los Angeles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

  Matthew Specktor

  Feelings, Los Angeles, Mixed Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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