Noah Baumbach Quotes

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

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.

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.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

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.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.