Noah Baumbach Quotes

I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Quentin Tarantino doesn't beat Hal Ashby, and he's one of my favorite directors. Quentin is incredible.

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It's my dream to work with him.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.