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I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.

As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!