If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
I have more friends in New York than Paris.
New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.
I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.