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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
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
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Dance
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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 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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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
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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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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
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I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
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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 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'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
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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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Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
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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'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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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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It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
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I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.
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I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
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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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