Noah Baumbach Quotes

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

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  Thinking, Notion, Cinematic

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

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  Thinking, Degrees, Transition

  "Making The Personal Universal: Noah Baumbach on 'The Squid and the Whale'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 5, 2005.

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• 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 end up on the Internet.

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  Writing, Procrastination, Finding Yourself

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• I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

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  Writing, School, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 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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  Sex, Lying, Thinking

  "Director Baumbach Tracks Family Failure". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. November 29, 2007.

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

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  Tourists, Manhattan, Driven

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• I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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  Materials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

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  Memories, Mean, People

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Book, Shelves, Values

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

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  Psychology, Way, Connected

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• I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

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  Writing, Trying, Imagine

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• I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

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  Thinking, Voice, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

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  People, Dynamics, Film

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• 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.

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  Real, Artist, Thinking

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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 I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

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  Kids, Thinking, Serious Person

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• I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

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  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

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  Responsibility, Years, Adults

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• Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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  Good Friend, Peter

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2005.

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• I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.

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  Dad, Thinking, Childhood

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

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  Feel Good, Shakes, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Able, Figures, Havens

  "Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha: 'I wanted it to feel like a first film'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2013.

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

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  Character, Extensions

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• Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

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  Crazy, Years, Film

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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.

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  Directors, Watches, Inspired

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

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  Records, Singers, Dylan

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