Noah Baumbach Quotes

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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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Procrastination, Finding Yourself

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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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• 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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• Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.

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  Song, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Noah Baumbach

  Book, Shelves, Values

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

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  Psychology, Way, Connected

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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 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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• 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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• I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

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  Growing Up, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

  Noah Baumbach

  Good Friend, Peter

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

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

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  Black And White, Color, Tvs

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• [Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of.

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  Naked, Proud, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

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  Notebook, Writing, Computer

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

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  France

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

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  Watches, Film, Certain

  "Kicking and Screaming: Noah Baumbach Grows Up with 'Greenberg'" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

  Noah Baumbach

  Emotional, Blind Spots, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Way

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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 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.'

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  People, Answers, Okay

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

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  Writing, Sometimes, Novel

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• I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

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  Baseball, Dad, Team

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