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" 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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" 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie. "

Noah Baumbach

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Right

Loved

" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "

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

" I always viewed life as material for a movie. "

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

" I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't. "

Noah Baumbach

Strangers

Know

" 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

Experience

Look

" 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. "

" Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. "

Noah Baumbach

Fantasy

World

" I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. "

" It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum. "

" Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology. "

" I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. "

" You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. "

" 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. "

" I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

Noah Baumbach

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Hitchcock

" 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

Past

Car

" 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. "