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
dad eye jerk
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.
nice nice-things conversation
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
college interesting 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.
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.
writing trying imagine
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
people knows
I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
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.
brilliant made
Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
black-and-white white black
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
laughing people different
I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.
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.
language embarrassed our-family
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
association location
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
responsibility years doing-nothing
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.