Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. "
Noah Baumbach
Watch
Hard
Time
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
History
Life
Day
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
People
Interesting
Cool
" That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. "
Noah Baumbach
Work
Your
Conversation
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Day
Writing
Time
" Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. "
Noah Baumbach
People
Dance
Date
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
You
Good
Crime
" 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 like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there. "
Noah Baumbach
New York
City
Memories
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Responsibility
Expect
Doing
" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "
Noah Baumbach
Peter
Friend
Good Friend
" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "
Noah Baumbach
Character
Music
Interested
" How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. "
Noah Baumbach
How
You
Starting
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Baseball
Team
Own
" Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. "
Noah Baumbach
Yourself
Your
Taste
" 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
Go
Funny
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Think
My Life
Life
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Achievement
Movies
People
" I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself. "
Noah Baumbach
Yourself
Finding
You
" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "
Noah Baumbach
Black-And-White
Will
Used
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Said
You
Think
" It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system. "
Noah Baumbach
Make
Black
Black And White
" Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.' "
Noah Baumbach
Filmmaking
Fun
Kid
" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "
Noah Baumbach
Would
Kid
My Own
" 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
Go
Know
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Together
People
Working Together
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Movies
Death
Control
" 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
Up
" I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. "
Noah Baumbach
Write
Done
Kind
" I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. "
Noah Baumbach
Overlooked
Always
Looking
" 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. "
Noah Baumbach
Work
I Can
Procrastination