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Noah Baumbach (/ˈbaʊmˌbæk/; born September 3, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale (2005) and is known for making dramatic comedies. He has also written and directed the films Frances Ha (2012), While We're Young (2014), Mistress America (2015), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).

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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Fantasize, Funeral, Kid, Kids, My Own

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

Actors, Part, Preparation, Prepared, Reason

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

Big, Bigs, Movies, People, Reason Why

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 against that.

Responsibility, Years, Adults, Grown, Nothing, Take

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.

Codes, Curious, Live, People, Thinking, Way

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

Aware, Character, Giving, Idiosyncratic, Keep

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Funny, Imagine, Reader, Scene, Trying, Writing

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

Writing, Sometimes, Novel, Time, Asked

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Done, Like, Live, School, Training, Writing

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Done, Kind, Life, Write, Writing

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Burgers, Crime Novels, Flip, Grill, Make

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Cinematic, Notion, Talk, Think, Thinking

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

Analysis, Therapy, Way

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

Baseball, Became, Dad, Mets, Sox, Team

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

Carry, Computer, Notebook, Writing

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

Easily, Feel Good, Feels, Good, Shake, Shakes

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.

Actor, Actors, Character, Lines, Point, Starts

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

Drive, Feels, Kind, Learning, Stuff

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

Friends, Know, Knows, Liked, People

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. '

Filmmaking, Fun, Idea, Kids, Movie, Thinking

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