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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
Another Country,
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Prague is a threshold."
"A threshold?"
"Yes. Between the life of good and ... the other."
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I'm not going to have to fight demons, am I?
It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious.
The city has a face, the country a soul.
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
Brooklyn, New York, and
Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
Cities must be fun.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!
In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs
from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.
Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span - pedestrian-only - was lined by monumental statues of saints.
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.
Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!
A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
Charleston, West "by gods" Virginia
Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...
Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.
The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.
I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun.
Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.
Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
Dukhoborcheskaya
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
Ibiza is very close to my heart.
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints ...
London. For some reason the word didn't seem to have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)
Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ... Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.
There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.
London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
I like where I live here, in London.
Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.
Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
It's a holy city for music.
Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
Seattle, Washington.
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.
Greenwich Village ... the village of low rents and high arts.
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
I adore Copenhagen, where I live, but I'm really drawn to New York.
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.