Noah Baumbach

“I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.”

“I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on an...”

“It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.”

“I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through For...”

“I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.”

“I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.”

“When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.”

“I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.”

“When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.”

“Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.”

“I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.”