182 Quotes by Noah Baumbach

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I’ve thought about writing a novel.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you’re supposed to be writing, you’ve already lost. It’s even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

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.

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.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn’t work for me.

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 some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

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.

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.