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" 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. "

Noah Baumbach

People

World

Yourself

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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. "

Noah Baumbach

Experience

Look

" 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. "

Noah Baumbach

Loved

Hitchcock

" I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. "

" 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. "

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

" I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy. "

Noah Baumbach

Movies

Think

" 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 think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy. "

" 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. "