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
real people achievement
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.
black-and-white white black
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
laughing people different
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.
writing school training
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
summer jobs new-york
There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.
language embarrassed our-family
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.
responsibility years doing-nothing
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.
song thinking color
Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.
writing trying imagine
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
dad thinking childhood
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.
records singers dylan
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
way manhattan fantasy
I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
vulnerable reactions knows
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
people reason-why bigs
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.