I’ve had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I grew up in the heat of ’70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of ‘The Squid And The Whale.’ But I think that’s par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I think it’s always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that’s how they look good. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I’ve had times in my life when I really haven’t been able to figure myself out. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I’ve always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
Woody Allen’s movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can’t even locate it any more. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
I graduated in ’91, so the ’90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can’t really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
There’s always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
