Griffin Dunne Quotes
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.
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.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
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.
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.
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.
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
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.
Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.
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.
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.
