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
nice nice-things conversation
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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.
cds interesting people
There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.
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.
association location
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
teenager divorce agreement
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.
growing-up writing opportunity
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.
psychology way connected
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
proud stuff naked
[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of.
parent sound reasonable
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
emotional blind-spots people
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
manhattan tourists driven
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
crime-novels flip burgers
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.
materials
I always viewed life as material for a movie.