Noah Baumbach Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.”

“I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.”

“My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.”

“I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.”

“I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.”

“That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.”

“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.”

“Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'”

“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.”

“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.”