Noah Baumbach Quotes

I don`t outline. And when I`ve done jobs either in television or for a studio, and outlines have been part of the deal, it seems completely artificial to me and, I think, made it harder for me to write the script afterward.

I try not to analyze the characters when I`m writing, but I`m very analytical in my life.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

At some point it`s going to add up to some sort of strange police blotter sketch if all these things in my films are true. My hope is that I will make enough movies that they can`t all conceivably be autobiographical.

Really, as long as they`re supportive of the movie and the way I want to make it, the difference between it being a studio or not isn`t that great. It`s more secure with a studio, but you can also get caught up in more red tape. Suddenly they have to clear everything in the shot; people get anxious.

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 reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford`s Good Solider" or something I wasn`t equipped to understand."

I grew up in the heat of 70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. My film is emotional rather than meta, and that`s my rebellion.

Somebody could easily go through and link everything to different points in not just my family, but people I know - but I don`t even really care. For me, the movie is a protection - a completely reinvented film. (on `The Squid and The Whale.`)