As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. Noah Baumbach More Quotes by Noah Baumbach More Quotes From Noah Baumbach Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. Noah Baumbach film crazy years 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.' Noah Baumbach okay answers people I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. Noah Baumbach novel writing sometimes 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. Noah Baumbach dad team baseball 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. Noah Baumbach strive dream ideas I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you. Noah Baumbach procrastinating procrastination trying It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. Noah Baumbach kind stuff feels 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. Noah Baumbach good-movie regret should-have I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. Noah Baumbach inspired watches directors I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. Noah Baumbach dylan records singers When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. Noah Baumbach our-family embarrassed language When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people. Noah Baumbach cutting editing mean You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. Noah Baumbach giving character 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." Noah Baumbach lying sex thinking Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. Noah Baumbach profession people I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. Noah Baumbach cities challenges people I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy. Noah Baumbach unhappy two thinking When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. Noah Baumbach funeral my-own kids I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. Noah Baumbach able figures havens I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman. Noah Baumbach memories mean people
