182 Quotes by Noah Baumbach

I wouldn’t say ‘Frances Ha’ is autobiographical, but it’s definitely very personal.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn’t know it was happening until it was over.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it’s your friend.

I suppose some studio executive would say it’s death for a comedy if people aren’t all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can’t control it.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I’ll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

It’s near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there’s no reason for how it’s starting.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

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.