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I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
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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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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
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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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I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.
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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 like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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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.
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It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
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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'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
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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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