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" I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me. "

Noah Baumbach

Past

Car

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Noah Baumbach

Movies

" Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "