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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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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
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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 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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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 live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
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I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that 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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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
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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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I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.
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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 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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