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
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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.
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I expect to be with her the rest of my life.
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I had Jeff Daniels wear my Dad's clothes. It wasn't because I wanted to recreate my Dad in any way, it's because by having those things there it warms me to the characters and the story, it puts me in it more, ... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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.
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I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
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I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.
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I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.
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I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.
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To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.
shooting shot time ways
'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.
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'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.
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I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.
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Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work.
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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.