American - Writer | September 3, 1969 -
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.
Noah Baumbach
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I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
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Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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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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I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.
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I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
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