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Griffin Dunne

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

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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Donna Grant

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."

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Donna Grant

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

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Donna Grant

"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."

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Donna Grant

"Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees."

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Donna Grant

"We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own."

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Donna Grant

"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."

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Griffin Dunne
"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."

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

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

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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
"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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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
"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."

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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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