Noah Baumbach Quotes

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Noah Baumbach

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 3, 1969

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Noah Baumbach

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

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I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.

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I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

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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.

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Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

Noah Baumbach

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

Noah Baumbach

I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.

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.

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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

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A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

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I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

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I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

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I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

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