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  • 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.

    Real   Artist   Thinking  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

    Sex   Lying   Thinking  
    "Director Baumbach Tracks Family Failure". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. November 29, 2007.
  • I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

    People   Knows  
    "Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha: 'I wanted it to feel like a first film'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2013.
  • I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

    Character   Ideas   Agree  
  • Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

    Brilliant   Made  
    "Noah Baumbach Talks 'Kicking And Screaming' On The Eve Of BAMcinemaFest 17th Anniversary Screening". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. June 29, 2012.
  • Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

  • It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

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

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

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

    "Happiness" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. April 29, 2013.
  • 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.

    Art   Ideas   Fiction  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Two   Unhappy  
    "Director Baumbach Tracks Family Failure". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. November 29, 2007.
  • When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

    Dream   Ideas   Strive  
    "Noah Baumbach Talks FRANCES HA, Partnership with Greta Gerwig, His DreamWorks Animated Movie, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, and THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 13, 2013.
  • Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2005.
  • 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.

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

    "Noah Baumbach Talks FRANCES HA, Partnership with Greta Gerwig, His DreamWorks Animated Movie, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, and THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 13, 2013.
  • If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

  • 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.

    Memories   Mean   People  
    Source: collider.com
  • I always viewed life as material for a movie.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

    "'Frances Ha' Q & A: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach on Collaborating, Shooting Black-and-White in NY (TRAILER)". Interview with Ryan Lattanzio, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.
  • I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

    People   Answers   Okay  
  • 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.

  • I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

    France  
  • 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 thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  • 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.

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