Noah Baumbach Quotes

United States, Film Maker
September 3, 1969

Noah Baumbach 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).

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Noah Baumbach
- Lives
- Points
- Notions
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Noah Baumbach

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

Noah Baumbach
- Taste
- Defining
- Stance
It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Noah Baumbach
- Life
- Happening
- Adjust
Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

Noah Baumbach
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Noah Baumbach
I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Noah Baumbach
- Life
- Movie
- Material
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

Noah Baumbach
- Movie
- Experiences
- Making

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

Noah Baumbach
- Experience
- Director
- Crew
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

Noah Baumbach
- Television
- Films
- Version