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.
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.
different problem guise
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
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.
independent long stories
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.
pay guilds five
I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
envy done directors
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.
actors way process
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].