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

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
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