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" 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. "

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" As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. "

Noah Baumbach

Funny

Think

Serious

" I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. "

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

" I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects. "

" 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. "

Noah Baumbach

You

Funny

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

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

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

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

" I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. "

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

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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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

" Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. "

" 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. "

" I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. "

" I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over. "

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

" 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

" Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. "

Noah Baumbach

Movies

" I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines. "

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