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White Noise director Noah Baumbach doesn’t like to think about death
Noah Baumbach, the director of “White Noise”, does not like to contemplate death too much, despite the fact that the main theme of his latest film is impending death.
“I try not to think about it as often as I do about anyone else,” says Page Six only during the opening night of the 60th New York Film Festival on Friday.
The 53-year-old New York resident was on hand to present his latest film “White noise”, Based on the acclaimed novel by Don DeLillo.
Adam Driver plays a college professor whose comfortable life in the suburbs is disrupted when a nearby chemical spill causes a “toxic incident in the air”, forcing him and his family to flee.
“I feel that something I took from the book and the movie is that, in a way, accepting death is perhaps a fuller life,” he says. “So I saw the structure of the movie as those people who are getting closer to death but also starting to open up to the concept of a more open life.”
However, unlike the heroes of the film, the director of “Marriage Story” admits that he did not fully master the same idea in his life.
“I can certainly say that intellectually,” he confesses. “Emotionally, I’m always frustrated with what I can do. Movies are always smarter than you… I’m a smart guy, but I can be smarter in movies than in life ”.
Also at the premiere were film stars Greta Gerwig – who is Baumbach’s true partner and frequent collaborator – Adam Driver, who has reluctantly posed for photographers Don Cheadle and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Photographers were disappointed when the re-reunited couple Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor skipped the red carpet.