Griffin Dunne Quotes

• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Movie, Inspiring, Narrative

  45 Copy quote

• If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

  Griffin Dunne

  Love, Dream, Fall

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Memories, Actors, Hunger

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  9 Copy quote

• To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

  Griffin Dunne

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

• If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

  Griffin Dunne

  New York, Should, Shots

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

• New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

  Griffin Dunne

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  22 Copy quote

• I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

  Griffin Dunne

  Mets, Wells, Mcqueen

  4 Copy quote

• When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

  Griffin Dunne

  Character, Feels

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Independent, Community, Amy

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

• I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

  Griffin Dunne

  Jobs, Able, Apologizing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

• I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

  Griffin Dunne

  Pay, Guilds, Five

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

• I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

  Griffin Dunne

  Actors, Way, Process

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Independent, Long, Stories

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  8 Copy quote

• I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

  Griffin Dunne

  Schizophrenic

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Toronto, Benefits, Lines

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

• Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

  Griffin Dunne

  Directors

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Envy, Directors, Looks

  "INTERVIEW: Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

• I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

  Griffin Dunne

  Amy, Six, 80s

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Indiewire, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Reading, Cutting, Interesting

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

• Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

  Griffin Dunne

  Different, Problem, Guise

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Mistake, Reality, Truthful

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Character, Ghouls, Voice

  52 Copy quote

• 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

  Should Have, Directors, Actors

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

• I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

  Griffin Dunne

  New York, Actors, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, Guy, Feelings

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

David Naughton

Dominick Dunne

Carey Lowell

Jenny Agutter

Peter Farrelly

John Landis

James Gunn

Richard Masur