A biography for Noah Baumbachhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.”
“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 kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.”
“I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.”
“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 find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.”
“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.”
“It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.”
“I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't.”
“You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.”
“How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.”
“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.”
“I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.”
“We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.”
“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.”