Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is an American independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whaleand is known for making dramatic comedies. Other acclaimed films written and directed by Baumbach include Frances Ha, While We're Young, and Mistress America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 September 1969
CountryUnited States of America
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I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.
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There's something deceptively simple about how he acts. It reminds me of Spencer Tracy. It's almost like he isn't doing anything, but he is really doing so much.
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I wanted someone funny to play the part, but who was also a great actor. As Bernard he can be very off-putting, but there's also something that makes you want to take care of him.
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I would love to write with Wes as long as he'll have me.
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I expect to be with her the rest of my life.
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I had Jeff Daniels wear my Dad's clothes. It wasn't because I wanted to recreate my Dad in any way, it's because by having those things there it warms me to the characters and the story, it puts me in it more, ... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.
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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.
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Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work.
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Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.
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It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.
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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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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.
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'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.