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21 quotes by Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne Dunne at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Born Thomas Griffin Dunne (1955-06-08) June 8, 1955 (age 59) New York City, New York, U.S. Nationality American Occupation Actor, producer, director Years active 1975–present Spouse(s) Carey Lowell (m. 1989–95) Anna Bingemann (m. 2009) Children 1 Parents Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dominick Dunne Relatives Dominique Dunne (sister) John Gregory Dunne (uncle) Joan Didion...
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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... →

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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.

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I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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

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

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I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

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I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

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I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

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I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

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

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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

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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... →

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