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" 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. "

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" I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. "

Noah Baumbach

Fiction

Idea

Heat

" How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. "

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

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

" There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be. "

" 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. "

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "

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

" 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

" It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my 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'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. "

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

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" 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 really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "