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" I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people. "

Noah Baumbach

Life

Little Things

People

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" 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. "

" Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. "

" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

" I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused. "

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

" 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 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

" I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes. "

Noah Baumbach

Great

See

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

" I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. "

" 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. "

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

" I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend. "

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