Noah Baumbach Quotes

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Noah Baumbach

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 3, 1969

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Noah Baumbach

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

Noah Baumbach

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

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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.

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Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

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Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

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There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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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.

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You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

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I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

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It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

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How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

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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.

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I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

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I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

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To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

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