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