X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Noah Baumbach Inspirational Quotes (58)

Page 1 of 3
Filter & Style
Image
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
Noah Baumbach
Image
When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
Noah Baumbach
Image
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.
Noah Baumbach
Image
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.
Noah Baumbach
Image
Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
Noah Baumbach
Image
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.
Noah Baumbach
Image
[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of.
Noah Baumbach
Image
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.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.
Noah Baumbach
Image
Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
Noah Baumbach
Image
It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.
Noah Baumbach
Image
It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
Noah Baumbach
Image
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
Image
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
Noah Baumbach
Image
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
Noah Baumbach
Image
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
Noah Baumbach
Image
I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.
Noah Baumbach
Previous
Next