60 Noah Baumbach Quotes for You to Enjoy

Noah Baumbach

American Writer

Born: Sep 3, 1969

Always Life Me People Think You

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I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable. Noah Baumbach

Characters Idea Agree

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. Noah Baumbach

Me Locate Ways Would Some Allen More Part Over New Pieces Read Comic His Up Yorker Any Influence Grew New Yorker Woody Movies Them Much Even Watching

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real. Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world. Noah Baumbach

World Corporate Corporate World Shadow Shake Fairly Even Serious

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

Death People Comedy Control Say Laugh Laughing Would Find Some Studio Suppose Executive Very Same Different Places Movies Different Places

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. Noah Baumbach

Myself You Yourself People World Thought Seen Older Dig Those Adjust Telling Would Would-Be About Adolescent Ideas Always How Go Get Different Want Either Interested Themselves Notions Included Different Things Let Go Deeper Keeps Things

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

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

Me Unhappy Made Trouble Young Think Minus Plus Both Had Because Very Getting Movie Which Movies Then Two

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' Noah Baumbach

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me. Noah Baumbach

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. Noah Baumbach

Yourself Defining Easier Something Genuine Than Taste Any Stance Your

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. Noah Baumbach

People Behavior Own Mark Guess Ways Emotional Sophisticated Terms Blind Spots Intellectual Off Huge Very Being While Interested Who

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. Noah Baumbach

Life Value Books Having Like Shelves

I always viewed life as material for a movie. Noah Baumbach

Life Always Material Movie Viewed

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

Good People Think Incredibly Way Dress Know Look Because How Still Were Did Just Just Because Successful Who

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. Noah Baumbach

Parents Could Make Sound Articulate Being Anything Reasonable

I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket. Noah Baumbach

Me Think Too Way Had Remind Feel Like Also Sort Texture Jacket Childhood Wore Them Aspect Jean Dad Cords

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

Memories City New Like Because Shooting York New York Many Connection

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

Work Me Working Together Together People Become Crew Crew Members Mine Members Would Would-Be Something Casting Perfect Like Know Parts Were Continue Friends Close Close Friends Mean Them Working Many Keep Things Bring

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. Noah Baumbach

Good Friend Peter Good Friend

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