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
bernard care funny great
I wanted someone funny to play the part, but who was also a great actor. As Bernard he can be very off-putting, but there's also something that makes you want to take care of him.
communal experience isolated
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
closest entirely final
'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.
alienated felt great home los love
With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.
manhattan houston world
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
nice nice-things conversation
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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.
association location
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
psychology way connected
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
parent sound reasonable
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
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.
scene ends uncomfortable
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.