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 used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.
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I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.
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I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good.
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I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
communal experience isolated
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
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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.
came dinners york
I was Wes's New York friend. The collaboration came out of getting to know each other, our dinners together.
expect rest
I expect to be with her the rest of my life.
love
I would love to write with Wes as long as he'll have me.