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

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

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

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

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

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
Griffin Dunne

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.
Griffin Dunne

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.
Griffin Dunne