Noah Baumbach Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Teenager, Divorce, Agreement

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• Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

  Noah Baumbach

  Brilliant, Made

  "Noah Baumbach Talks 'Kicking And Screaming' On The Eve Of BAMcinemaFest 17th Anniversary Screening". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. June 29, 2012.

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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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• 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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• There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

  Noah Baumbach

  Summer, Jobs, New York

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• Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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  People, Profession

  "Noah Baumbach’s Graduate Dance". Interview with Michael Hafford, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

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  Analysis, Way, Therapy

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• The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

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  Real, People, Achievement

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• I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

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  Crime Novels, Burgers, Flip

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• Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

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  Parent, Sound, Reasonable

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• My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

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  Dad, Eye, Jerk

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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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• 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

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

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  Manhattan, Way, Fantasy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  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.

  Noah Baumbach

  Fun, Down And, Way

  Source: www.avclub.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 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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• 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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• 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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• There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

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  Vulnerable, Reactions, Knows

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• 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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  Scene, Ends, Uncomfortable

  "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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• There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

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  Thinking, Years, Guy

  "Noah Baumbach Talks 'Kicking And Screaming' On The Eve Of BAMcinemaFest 17th Anniversary Screening" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

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  People, Knows

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

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  Records, Singers, Dylan

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