Noah Baumbach Net Worth

Noah Baumbach's Quotes

• I always viewed life as material for a movie.
• 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. My film is emotional rather than meta, and that's my rebellion.
• "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 Ford Madox Ford's "Good Solider" or something I wasn't equipped to understand".
• Somebody could easily go through and link everything to different points in not just my family, but people I know - but I don't even really care. For me, the movie is a protection - a completely reinvented film. [on 'The Squid and The Whale.']
• I don't outline. And when I've done jobs either in television or for a studio, and outlines have been part of the deal, it seems completely artificial to me and, I think, made it harder for me to write the script afterward.

Interesting Facts about Noah Baumbach

1. Had his script for The Squid and the Whale (2005) hand-delivered to Laura Linney by his friend Eric Stoltz during the filming of The House of Mirth (2000) in 2000. Linney agreed to do the film immediately, but it took four years to raise the financing.
2. His mother is Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. His father Jonathan Baumbach is a novelist and film critic.
3. Had lived with ex-wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for four years prior to their marriage.
4. Born and raised in New York.
5. Named one of Fade In magazine's 2005 list of 100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know.
6. Ex-son-in-law of Barbara Turner and the late Vic Morrow.
7. Graduate of Vassar College
8. Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.
9. Ex-brother-in-law of Carrie Ann Morrow. Stepbrother-in-law of Mina Badie.
10. Has a son, Rohmer Emmanuel Baumbach (born March 17, 2010), with his ex-wife Jennifer Jason Leigh.
11. Lives in an apartment on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
12. When directing on set, prefers saying 'Begin' or 'When you're ready', instead of 'Action!'.
13. Is known for his meticulous precision, doing 55 takes with Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke searching through a closet during filming of 'Untitled Public School Project'.
14. Briefly worked as a messenger at Manhattan's revered The New Yorker magazine.
15. Is a close friend and collaborator of Wes Anderson.
16. Has been in a long-term relationship with Greta Gerwig since 2011.
17. According to himself, he tends to return again and again to making movies about people who have an image of themselves they can't live up to.
18. Writes a series of short stories for the New Yorker magazine.
19. Older brother of Nico Baumbach.
20. Grandson of painter Harold Baumbach & Ida Baumbach.