182 Quotes by Noah Baumbach

I call my wife and tell her I’m going to sleep at the lab. She reminds me that she left me a week ago. Louis tries to crack me up by pantomiming humping a chimp through the cage.

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.

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.

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.

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.

There's always going to be some limit, and if it means I take less money to make a movie so that I can make the movie I want to make, then it's worth it to me.

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 rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.