It can be combining something disparate. With Greenberg , for example, I had the idea with the character and I wanted to make a movie in L.A. and about L.A. Then I put the two things together and that was the movie. With Francis Ha I wanted to do things in black and white, in New York, and with Greta Gerwig. These are the more conscious things.
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Noah Baumbach
Film director and screenwriter
United States · b. 1969
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American film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha and Marriage Story.
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