Baumbach Movies Quotes

#1. Being meek does not make you weak. You're not someone who sways with changing circumstances. You don't allow yourself to be used. You're not passive or spineless. Your faith is in the Almighty, so you know that you are mighty.

Toni Sorenson

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Carlos Fuentes

#6. Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

Noah Baumbach

#7. 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

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

Noah Baumbach

#9. You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Jon Stewart

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized

Sunday Adelaja

#13. 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

#14. Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Carl Sagan

#15. Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Norah Jones

#16. I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

Noah Baumbach

#17. I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Noah Baumbach