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I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.
— Noah Baumbach
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
— Noah Baumbach
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
— Noah Baumbach
With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles ... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.
— Noah Baumbach
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
— Noah Baumbach
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
— Noah Baumbach
It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
— Noah Baumbach
I always viewed life as material for a movie.
— Noah Baumbach
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
— Noah Baumbach
Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
— Noah Baumbach
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
— Noah Baumbach
I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.
— Noah Baumbach
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.
— Noah Baumbach
It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
— Noah Baumbach
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
— Noah Baumbach
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.
— Noah Baumbach
When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
— Noah Baumbach
I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
— Noah Baumbach
Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.
— Noah Baumbach
I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
— Noah Baumbach
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
— Noah Baumbach
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
— Noah Baumbach
Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation."
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach. — Ellen Raskin
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach. — Ellen Raskin
I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.
— Noah Baumbach
I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.
— Noah Baumbach
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
— Noah Baumbach
Truffaut loved Hitchcock.
— Noah Baumbach
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
— Noah Baumbach
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.
— Noah Baumbach
It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
— Noah Baumbach
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
— Noah Baumbach
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
— Noah Baumbach
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
— Noah Baumbach
Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
— Noah Baumbach
'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.
— Noah Baumbach
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
— Noah Baumbach
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
— Noah Baumbach
There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.
— Noah Baumbach
Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
— Noah Baumbach
I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.
— Noah Baumbach
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
— Noah Baumbach
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
— Noah Baumbach
I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.
— Noah Baumbach
Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.
— Noah Baumbach