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I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.