Noah Baumbach Quotes

I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.'

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.

There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to keep moving in the world, and that's what film does, at its best.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

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

I saw every single movie when I was a kid.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

Scorsese would talk to me about this movie 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland. We were talking about this scene in it, and suddenly we were rolling. It was very intentional, and I didn't realize - because we talk old movies all the time.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time in the darkened theatres.

I took inspiration from one of my favorite movies, 'The Last Dragon,' along with my own personal thoughts and ideas.

Disney movies are a great outing for the entire family, and my children are huge fans of their classics, especially 'The Lion King.'

I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

I think your life informs your art.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.