Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

— Noah Baumbach

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

— Noah Baumbach

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

— Noah Baumbach

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

— Noah Baumbach

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

— Noah Baumbach

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

— 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…

— Noah Baumbach

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

— Noah Baumbach

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but…

— Noah Baumbach

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope…

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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 grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was…

— Noah Baumbach

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones,…

— 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

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

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are…

— 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

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that…

— Noah Baumbach

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

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have…

— Noah Baumbach

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

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 live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

— Noah Baumbach

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

— Noah Baumbach

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach