Noah Baumbach Quotes - Page 2

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

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  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 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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• 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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• It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

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  Stuff, Kind, Feels

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

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  Parent, Sound, Reasonable

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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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• 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.

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  Summer, Jobs, New York

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Preparation, Actors, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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.

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  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

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  Black And White, White, Black

  "'Frances Ha' Q & A: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach on Collaborating, Shooting Black-and-White in NY (TRAILER)". Interview with Ryan Lattanzio, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.

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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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• Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

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  People, Reason Why, Bigs

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• I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

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  People, Laughing, Different

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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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