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" 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. "

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" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

Noah Baumbach

Said

You

Think

" You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. "

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

" I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist. "

" 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

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

" Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'm interested in music as an extension of character. "

" I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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 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. "

" There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me. "

Noah Baumbach

Making

Who

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you. "

" I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there. "

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

" 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.' "