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 Read Quote
I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you’d be surprised when you hear some of the things said. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I don’t like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny – and then suddenly it’s over. Noah Baumbach Read Quote