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September 23, 2005

Smartie: Noah Baumbach on one impulse behind The Squid and the Whale

In New York, Noah Baumbach says that after 30, he wanted to make "more emotional movies that were less about being clever.... Intellectuals are depicted so negatively now, it's nice to show that they can be human beings, too—to make emotional movies about intellectuals rather than analytic movies about intellectuals."

Posted by pride at September 23, 2005 05:33 PM

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