Griffin Dunne
Griffin Dunne
Thomas Griffin Dunne, known professionally as Griffin Dunne, is an American actor, film producer and film director...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1955
CityNew York City, NY
couple ownership produce projects
I still produce, by the way, a couple of projects that I'd like to produce and direct, because I have ownership of the material.
cities public
There are just not other cities where you don't need a car, where everyone is reliant on public transportation, where we're all in each other's faces.
believe came earliest images lived people remember tall top york
I remember my earliest images of New York came from movies, and I couldn't believe that people lived on top of each other in tall buildings.
jobs able apologizing
I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
memories actors hunger
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
should-have actors able
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.
character voice ghouls
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.
different problem guise
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
new-york mean thinking
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.
new-york shots should
If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
toronto benefits lines
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.
independent community amy
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.
schizophrenic
I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.
directors
Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.