It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly.… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie,… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
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… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share
