Latest Noah Baumbach Quotes from Interviews

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• There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

  Noah Baumbach

  Preparation, Actors, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, Voice, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Character, Actors, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

  Noah Baumbach

  Art, Crazy, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.

  Noah Baumbach

  Mean, Fire, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Noah Baumbach

  Feel Good, Shakes, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Fun, Down And, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Manhattan, Way, Fantasy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Song, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Growing Up, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, School, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Naked, Proud, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

  Noah Baumbach

  Regret, Should Have, Good Movie

  "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.

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  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.

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Memories, Mean, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Cities, People, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

  Noah Baumbach

  Association, Location

  Source: collider.com