Noah Baumbach

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Noah Baumbach

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

— Noah Baumbach

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— 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

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really…

— Noah Baumbach

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

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Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for…

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

— Noah Baumbach

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it…

— 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…

— 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.

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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…

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I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but…

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I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful,…

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I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me…

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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

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of…

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I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of…

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

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I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

— Noah Baumbach

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

— Noah Baumbach

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

— 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

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…

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As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe…

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I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let…

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How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

— Noah Baumbach

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

— Noah Baumbach

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

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the…

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I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

— Noah Baumbach

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of…

— Noah Baumbach