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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Noah Baumbach

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
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I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
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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.'
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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.
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Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, Let's find some songs now! after we have a finished film.
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When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.
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How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
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I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
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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.
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I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
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I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
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I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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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.
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I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.
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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.
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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.
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