Noah Baumbach Quotes

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

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, Notion, Cinematic

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• I always viewed life as material for a movie.

  Noah Baumbach

  Materials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Taste, Defining, Easier

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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 we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.

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  Cities, People, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Psychology, Way, Connected

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

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  Book, Shelves, Values

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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.

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  People, Events, Littles

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

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  Writing, Done, Kind

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2005.

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• I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.

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  Character, Actors, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.

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  Fun, Down And, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.

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  Mean, Cutting, Editing

  "Noah Baumbach Talks FRANCES HA, Partnership with Greta Gerwig, His DreamWorks Animated Movie, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, and THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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  Thinking, Anxiety, Make You Think

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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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