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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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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Donna Grant

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

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Donna Grant

"Actors are very generous."

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Donna Grant

"Every actor wants to direct."

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Donna Grant

"I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off."

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Donna Grant

"One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned."

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Donna Grant

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor."

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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
"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
"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 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."

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Griffin Dunne
"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 that way since the first skyscraper."

People

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

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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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