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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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[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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
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I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
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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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It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
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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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I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
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I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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