Noah Baumbach Quotes

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.

'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.

'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.

People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

When I'm in the car, if you didn't know my story and just saw me driving, you wouldn't know the difference between me and any of the other drivers. I'm just out there competing.

You know, sometimes people recognize me, sometimes they don't.

I never really set out to have people see my videos.

No one recognises me on the street, ever.

People do recognize me. I walk around with sunglasses, and I think I'm hidden, but they see me.

I enjoy the idea of being able to sort of flip-flop between being recognized and not being recognized.

If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.

When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

Let's all start walking more and driving less.

Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter