In some ways, it wasn’t different because my original dialogue is also very stylized. So it was a new thing using Delillo’s dialogue, but it felt very familiar to me. I often write dialogue to discover the characters and story The rhythms of it is something that I pay close attention to when I’m shooting, and the actors. It’s different, because dialogue is a big part of my scripts and it’s often how I find the movie. NB: I think that’s a great way to put it. He said that there was something heightened about it, “On close examination, you realize that no one talks like this and yet everyone does.” Looking at the reviews of the book when it came out, especially the review by Saul Urich - who wrote “The Warriors” - he commented specifically on the dialogue. Q: Did it feel like a different process for you, working with Delillo’s text and language? There’s something about the prose of the book and dialogue. I got deeper into it and I felt, “Well, let’s try this.” Then I started showing pages to Greta and she was encouraging. I set out to do it almost to occupy my mind. It would have been true with or without the pandemic but that certainly put a finer point on it. So I set out to do it as an exercise because, on finishing the book, I felt like this represents how I feel right now. It was also the first time in my career up to this point that I didn’t have anything that I necessarily felt alive enough that I wanted to do.
I found myself finishing it as the pandemic arrived. I casually started reading it again at the end of 2019, beginning of 2020.
I hadn’t read a Don Delillo book for years. NB: I think a lot of it was the timing of it because the book had occupied a huge part of my consciousness from having read it when I was a teenager. It’s also a book that’s been called “un-filmable.” What was it about “White Noise” that suggested itself to you as a film? What was it about the book that made you want to see it as a film? This is your first adaptation - not just any old adaptation, but a book, “White Noise” by Don Delillo. You wrote or co-write all your films, it’s always been original material. Q: Noah, you’re known as a writer-director. Press conference with director Noah Baumbach, cast members Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, May Nivola, Sam Nivola, composer Danny Elfman, and songwriter James Murphy
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