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“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.” quote by Griffin Dunne — Download Open image

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

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When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

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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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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which…

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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just…

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