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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
Film Producer
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Brooklyn
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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 kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
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I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
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I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
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It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.
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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 wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.
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I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.
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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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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.
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I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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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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There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
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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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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.
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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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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
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Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
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