You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
Noah BaumbachThere are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.
Noah BaumbachI think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.
Noah BaumbachWhen you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
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