I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be. — 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
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… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. — 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
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you… — 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
I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful,… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear… — 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
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
