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It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. (Noah Baumbach)
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. View quote
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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. View quote
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As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. View quote
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Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. View quote
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I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape." View quote
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I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused. View quote
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I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. View quote
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I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. View quote
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I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. View quote
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It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. (Noah Baumbach)
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.' View quote
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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. View quote
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I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. View quote
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When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it. View quote
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I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day. View quote
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I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' View quote
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Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. View quote
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I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. (Noah Baumbach)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. View quote
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I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. View quote
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