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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.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

Noah Baumbach

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Noah Baumbach

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

Noah Baumbach

I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Noah Baumbach

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

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

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

Noah Baumbach

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

Noah Baumbach

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

Noah Baumbach

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work.

Noah Baumbach

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.'

Noah Baumbach

I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.

Noah Baumbach

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

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