Griffin Dunne Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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