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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
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
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
— Noah Baumbach
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
— Noah Baumbach
I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
— 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
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 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
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
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
Truffaut loved Hitchcock.
— Noah Baumbach
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.
— 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
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
— 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