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

2. "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." ~ Griffin Dunne

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

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

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

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

7. "I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working." ~ Griffin Dunne

8. "I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself." ~ Griffin Dunne

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

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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." ~ Griffin Dunne

13. "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

14. "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

15. "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." ~ Griffin Dunne

16. "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." ~ Griffin Dunne

17. "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." ~ Griffin Dunne

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A brief, well-crafted story that is relevant to your topic is one of the most potent ways to maintain the attention of your audience. But the story must be kind. Benjamin Disraeli said: "Never tell unkind stories." Inconsiderate and insensitive stories do not bring grace to those who hear them, and may actually leave the audience dispirited."
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