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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.

Noah Baumbach

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
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