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Griffin Dunne

"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."

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"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."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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Griffin Dunne
"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."

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Griffin Dunne
"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."

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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."

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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."

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Griffin Dunne
"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."

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

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Griffin Dunne
"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."

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

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

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

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