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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Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped...

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I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good.

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 all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, an...

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

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. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

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I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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

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 myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Noah Baumbach

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

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

Noah Baumbach

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

Noah Baumbach

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

Noah Baumbach

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

Noah Baumbach

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

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 a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

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Author Bio

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