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" I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over. "

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" 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

Friends

Music

People

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

" There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me. "

Noah Baumbach

Making

Who

" 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.' "

" It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Connection

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

Noah Baumbach

Loved

Hitchcock

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

" I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. "

" 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

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

" 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. "