Noah Baumbach Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

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

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

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

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

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.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

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

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.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

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

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

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

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.

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.