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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
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Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
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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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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 find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
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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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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
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It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials
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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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[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 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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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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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 wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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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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When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
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I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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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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