“Let’s welcome Noah Baumbach to the e-stage.  

If you have a question for him, please come to the mic.”

…

“Hey Mr. Gerwig. Longtime fan, first-time questioner.

Throughout your oeuvre, multiple characters across different movies randomly discuss the Knicks. Assuming you’re a fellow sufferer supporter of the team — a safe assumption — well, first off: my apologies.

But also: would you say the annual, perpetually-cyclical Knicksian tradition of false hope leading to inevitable doom has informed either your worldview, that of your characters, or just generally the existential philosophy undergirding your cinema/life?

I’ll hang up and listen. Keep doing you.”