Noah Baumbach Quotes

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.

I have been a fan of movies from a very young age, and somehow, the magic of that - every single time I hear something or read something that could be made into a wonderful film or something somebody is asking me to be a part of - that connects. It just makes me feel like I'm going to be part of something magical again.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.