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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
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I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.
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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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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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Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
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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 kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
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I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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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 love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
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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 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 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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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'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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Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.
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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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