I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. Noah Baumbach More Quotes by Noah Baumbach More Quotes From Noah Baumbach I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. Noah Baumbach peoplewaythinking Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. Noah Baumbach filmcrazyyears 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 okayanswerspeople I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. Noah Baumbach novelwritingsometimes 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 dadteambaseball 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 strivedreamideas 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 procrastinatingprocrastinationtrying It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. Noah Baumbach kindstufffeels 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-movieregretshould-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 inspiredwatchesdirectors I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. Noah Baumbach dylanrecordssingers 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-familyembarrassedlanguage 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 cuttingeditingmean You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. Noah Baumbach givingcharacter 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 lyingsexthinking Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. Noah Baumbach professionpeople 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 citieschallengespeople 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 unhappytwothinking When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. Noah Baumbach funeralmy-ownkids I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. Noah Baumbach ablefigureshavens
