Film Quotes by Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

— Noah Baumbach

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

— Noah Baumbach

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

— Noah Baumbach

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people…

— 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

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…

— Noah Baumbach

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

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

— 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

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

— Noah Baumbach

[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just…

— Noah Baumbach

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at…

— Noah Baumbach

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the…

— Noah Baumbach

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know…

— Noah Baumbach

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

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as…

— Noah Baumbach

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

When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to…

— Noah Baumbach

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of…

— Noah Baumbach

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

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I…

— 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…

— Noah Baumbach

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all…

— Noah Baumbach