“I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.”— Terry Zwigoff
“I have a love/hate relationship with the city of Los Angeles, but I'm also a big fan of it.”— Paul Thomas Anderson
“In Los Angeles, you can have the city of appeal and the city of smog. You can have the city of blessed sunshine and the city of awful traffic.”— Patrick Dempsey
“The great thing about 'L.A. Confidential' is that it's a movie about a city, and it's a movie about a time. It's a very specific time, and a very specific place.”— Curtis Hanson
“Welcome to L.A., the city of self-invention, where you are what you own, what you do, and who you know.”— Alan Rudolph