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Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
Film Producer
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Brooklyn
New York
Dance
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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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When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.
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Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
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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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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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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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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 read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
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Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.
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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
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I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
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I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
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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 get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'
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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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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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