Quotes by Noah Baumbach

About Noah Baumbach:

Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale (2005) and is known for making dramatic comedies. Other acclaimed films written and directed by Baumbach include Frances Ha (2012), While We're Young (2014), and Mistress America (2015).
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I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

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I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

Noah Baumbach

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

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

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

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 they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people eith...

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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Noah Baumbach

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

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Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

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

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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 some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

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 that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

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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, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to fi...

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When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Noah Baumbach

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

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

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Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameNoah Baumbach
  • Descriptionfilm director
  • BornSeptember 3, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director