182 Quotes by Noah Baumbach

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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

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

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

'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.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'