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" 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. "

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Thought

Time

Divorce

" 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. "

" I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. "

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

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

" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

" There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be. "

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

" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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Loved

Hitchcock

" That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. "

" It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system. "

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

" 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.' "

" Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. "

" '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. "

" Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "