Quotes from Noah Baumbach

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.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

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.

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.

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.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

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.

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.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.