Baumbach Movies Quotes & Sayings

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life. — Phil Collins

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies. — Noah Baumbach

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys. — Melissa McCarthy

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects. — Noah Baumbach

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' — Noah Baumbach

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write. — Noah Baumbach

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. — Noah Baumbach

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it. — Noah Baumbach

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. — Noah Baumbach

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. — Noah Baumbach

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

Neither one of us could really articulate how we felt until I heard Lamott referencing Paul Tillich and telling the audience, "The opposite of faith is not doubt - it's certainty." Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery. — Brene Brown

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin. — Noah Baumbach

Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret. — Noah Baumbach

My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake. — Lora Leigh

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy. — Noah Baumbach

But there comes a point (and this is the challenge facing modern technological Western man) when the cult of technique destroys feeling, undermines passion, and blots out individual identity. The technologically efficient lover ... has lost the power to be carried away; he knows only too well what he is doing. At this point, technology diminishes consciousness and demolishes eros. Tools are no longer an enlargement of consciousness but a substitute for it and, indeed, tend to repress and truncate it. — Rollo May

I commend lovers, I am enheartened by lovers, I am encouraged by their courage and inspired by their passion. — Maya Angelou

The last time I checked,I didn't have any special talent,thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache? — Kim Richardson