Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker. Read full biography of Noah Baumbach →
I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus... →
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... →
There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in.... →
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go... →
Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In... →
I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the... →
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... →
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... →
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with... →
I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they... →
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... →
I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge... →
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... →
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.