section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  Baker is married to Samantha Quan, a producer on three of his films. As of July 2021, they have two dogs, Bunsen and Boonee, the latter of whom played the titular character in his 2012 film Starlet. Boonee died in 2023. Baker said at a 2024 press conference in Cannes, France, that he believes sex work should be " decriminalized and not in any way regulated, because it's a sex worker's body and it's up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood." Baker was an opiate addict in his 20s.
  
  Baker is married to Samantha Quan, a producer on three of his films. As of July 2021, they have two dogs, Bunsen and Boonee, the latter of whom played the titular character in his 2012 film Starlet. Boonee died in 2023. Baker said at a 2024 press conference in Cannes, France, that he believes sex work should be " decriminalized and not in any way regulated, because it's a sex worker's body and it's up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood." Baker was an opiate addict in his 20s.