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Noah Baumbach
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 3
,
1969
Always
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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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.
Noah Baumbach
You
Yourself
Writing
Procrastination
Internet
Lost
Find
Supposed
Beyond
End
Up
Even
I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.
Noah Baumbach
Bad
Some
Pretty
Sure
Said
Lines
I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.
Noah Baumbach
Time
Myself
Me
Way
Definitely
Tell
Bad
Some
About
Someone
Could
Felt
Insulting
Were
Been
Same
Situations
Same Time
Where
Interested
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
First
Big
Own
Late
My Own
Knicks
Red
League
Red Sox
Became
Big Fan
Mets
Sox
Wanted
Fan
Team
Dad
Baseball
Started
Watching
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
Work
You
Procrastination
Walk
Try
Else
Out
Find
Something
Something Else
More
Take
Come
Like
Because
Get
Often
Procrastinate
Productively
Things
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
Life
People
Little Things
Events
Changes
Way
Drip
Announce
Major
Affects
Often
Interested
Little
Themselves
Things
Necessarily
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.
Noah Baumbach
Funny
Myself
Thought
Think
Funny Person
Secretly
Kid
Person
Maybe
Wanted
Wants
Who
Serious
Now
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
Family
People
Own
Out
Trick
Come
Know
Becomes
How
Hiring
Handle
Shoot
Dynamics
Anyway
Who
Film
Film Set
Set
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
Life
Myself
My Life
Think
Spent
Brooklyn
More
Feel
Because
Real
Male
Years
Than
Any
Artist
Certainly
Connection
Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
Noah Baumbach
Crazy
Films
Anderson
About
Them
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.
Noah Baumbach
Music
Time
You
Change
Trials
People
People Change
Nice
Other
Seeing
Through
Over
Like
Period
Go
Friends
Being
Much
Whose
Filmmakers
I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
Noah Baumbach
You
People
Relationships
Outside
Know
Liked
Always
Friends
Working
I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.
Noah Baumbach
Life
Myself
My Life
Out
Able
Had
Been
Times
Really
Figure
I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
Noah Baumbach
Me
Experience
School
First
Own
Independent
Out
My Own
Look
Were
Years
Very
Decade
Graduated
Much
Really
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
Great
Made
Few
Every
Think
Some
Always
Years
Movie
Them
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
Day
Me
People
Think
Kind
Paralysis
Some
Given
Point
Sort
Felt
Always
Any
Certainly
Who
Connection
Things
Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
Noah Baumbach
Brilliant
Will
Made
Lot
Movies
Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.
Noah Baumbach
People
College
Those
Kind
Record
Some
Record Label
Had
Always
How
Label
Friends
Handle
Bands
Manager
Where
Interest
Decisions
Interesting
Moment
Moments
Early
Early 20s
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
Noah Baumbach
You
Will
About
Someone
Something
Like
Know
Reaction
Vulnerable
Really
Playing
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
Love
Home
Great
Alienated
Way
Great Love
Angeles
About
Also
Make
Felt
Los
Los Angeles
Movie
Wanted
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
School
Walk
Job
Building
Think
Interview
Summer
High
High School
About
Had
New
Always
Still
Get
York
New York
Why
Actually
Rejected
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
Noah Baumbach
Own
Kid
Would
About
My Own
Fantasize
Funeral
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
Noah Baumbach
Work
Conversation
Nice
Collaborating
About
Someone
Becomes
Your
Nice Thing
Thing
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
Noah Baumbach
You
Writing
Carry
Find
Computer
Lot
Happens
Notebook
Actually
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
Noah Baumbach
Impossible
Black
Black And White
White
System
Make
Movie
Near
I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.
Noah Baumbach
Characters
Idea
Agree
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