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" 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
Film
Own
Know
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" 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. "
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" I always viewed life as material for a movie. "
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Viewed
Movie
" 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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" Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.' "
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" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "
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Hitchcock
" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "
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Writing
Time
" It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. "
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New York
Always
" Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies. "
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Movies
Made
Lot
" I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. "
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Challenge
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" 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
Striving
Know
Going
" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "
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Peter
Friend
Good Friend
" Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology. "
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Ways
Some
Connected
" 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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Great
See
He
" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "
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Character
Music
Interested
" I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects. "
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Subjects
Movies
Love
" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "
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Been
I Think
Talk
" 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
Thought
Time
Divorce
" When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right. "
Noah Baumbach
Watch
Just Because
Right
" 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
I Can
Procrastination
" 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
Best
Think
People
" 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. "
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Lost
Internet
End
" 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. "
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Intellectual
Blind
Behavior
" 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.' "
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Know
Sex
Proud
" 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
Team
Own
" 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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Something
Huge
Analysis
" 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. "
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People
Decisions
Kind
" I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. "
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Looking
Song
People
" 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
Expect
Doing
" Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. "
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Manhattan
Tailored
Driven
" Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. "
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Fantasy
World
Up