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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
Brilliant
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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've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.
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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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Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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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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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'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.
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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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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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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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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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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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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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It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
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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 interested in music as an extension of character.
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