Griffin Dunne Quotes
"I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Money, Being, Benefits, Tax)
"I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working."
- Griffin Dunne
"I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself."
- Griffin Dunne
"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Movies)
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Money, Movies, Community, Film)
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Work, Actor, Being, Desperation, Hunger, Memory, Open)
"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Right, Word)
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Envy)
"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Hope, Famous, Mistakes, Reality, Satire)
"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: First, Problems)
"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Act, Job)
"I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Actor, Film, First)
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Problems)
"Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking."
- Griffin Dunne
"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Time, Work, Feeling, Party)
"But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Time, Reading)
"As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Actor)
"And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Money, Being, Care)
"Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Character, Actors, Fact, Questions, Voice)
"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Movies)