Quotes by Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne

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.

Character

Ghouls

Voice

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.

Independent

Long

Stories

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.

Actors

Directors

Should Have

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.

Cutting

Interesting

Reading

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.

Feelings

Guy

Party

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Inspiring

Movie

Narrative

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

Different

Guise

Problem

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

Directors

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

Actors

Firsts

New York

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].

Actors

Process

Way

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Able

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Amy

Apologizing

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Community

Cutting

Different

Directors

Dream

Envy

Fall

Feelings

Feels

Firsts

Five

Ghouls

Guilds

Guise

Guy

Hunger

Independent

Inspiring

Interesting

Jobs

Laughing

Lines

Long

Looks

Love

Mcqueen

Mean

Memories

Mets

Mistake

Movie

Narrative

New York

Party

Pay

People

Pigs

Problem

Process

Reading

Reality

Schizophrenic

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Quotes by Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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

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

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

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].

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