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" '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. "

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" 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. "

Noah Baumbach

Love

Los Angeles

Great

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

Noah Baumbach

Having

Life

" I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology. "

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

" Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. "

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

" 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. "

" I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

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

" I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. "

" 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

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