Noah Movie Quotes

#1. The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

Aaron Klein

#2. A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

Noah Emmerich

#3. With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles ... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Noah Baumbach

#4. I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

Noah Baumbach

#5. There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

Noah Hawley

#6. A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

Noah Hawley

#7. I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

Noah Baumbach

#8. 'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

Noah Baumbach

#9. My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

Noah Baumbach

#10. 'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.

Richard Corliss

#11. I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Noah Baumbach

#12. After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

Noah Emmerich

#13. I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

Noah Hathaway

#14. I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

Noah Baumbach

#15. When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Noah Baumbach

#16. How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

Noah Baumbach

#17. 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

#18. I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

Noah Hathaway

#19. It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

Noah Baumbach

#20. It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your series goes eight, 10 seasons, you're set for life.

Noah Hawley

#21. I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

Noah Baumbach

#22. There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

Noah Baumbach

#23. When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

Noah Baumbach

#24. I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

Noah Hawley

#25. Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

Noah Baumbach

#26. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

Noah Hawley

#27. Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

Noah Baumbach

#28. I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

Noah Emmerich

#29. 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

Noah Baumbach

#30. I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Noah Baumbach