Noah Baumbach quotes

Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director, and filmmaker known for his sharp and witty storytelling. His work often explores themes of family, relationships, and personal growth, with films such as "The Squid and the Whale" and "Marriage Story." He has become a leading figure in contemporary independent cinema. Here are 78 of his quotes:

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.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

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With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Noah Baumbach

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

Noah Baumbach

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

Noah Baumbach

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

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Noah Baumbach

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

Noah Baumbach

I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.

Noah Baumbach

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Noah Baumbach

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

Noah Baumbach

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Noah Baumbach

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Noah Baumbach

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

Noah Baumbach

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

Noah Baumbach

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

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Noah Baumbach

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

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

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