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Rather than scrap it and rewrite the dialogue.

Your script supervisor did the same fing thing.

Tribeca Talks: Noah Baumbach - 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

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Hoffman called Collins up and said, I dont know how you did that scene.

It sounds like it was completely improvised.

And she said it was.

I said, but that was Woody Allens movie.

She said he said do whatever you want.

That was not the case when we worked together, quipped Baumbach.

Still, the director said Hoffman was a strong influence on him throughout production.

Not that it necessarily worked the way Hoffman had hoped.

Replied Baumbach: But then I knew to do it another 20 times.

The Meyerowitz Storiespremieres at the Cannes Film Festival in May and will be available on Netflix later this year.