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" 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. "

Noah Baumbach

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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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" There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook. "

" The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. "

" 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. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

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

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

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

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

" When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "

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

" 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. "

" I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. "