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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Movies
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Brilliant

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I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
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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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It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
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I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
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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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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
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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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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
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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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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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I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.
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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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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 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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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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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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Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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