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I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.

The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.