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" I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. "

Noah Baumbach

Reading

Myself

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

" 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. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "