Griffin Dunne quote: "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."

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any s...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we go...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most p...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and a...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But...
IRENE DUNNE

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
IRENE DUNNE

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
IRENE DUNNE

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
IRENE DUNNE

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
IRENE DUNNE

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
IRENE DUNNE

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who...
DOMINICK DUNNE

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroo...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But it may be too politically unpalatable in the U.S..
MICHAEL DUNNE

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
DOMINICK DUNNE

This is a watershed in the development of the auto industry in China. The Chinese formed joint ventu...
MICHAEL DUNNE

Why the spurt? Small cars powered by gas-sipping engines that start at $4,000.
MICHAEL DUNNE

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away w...
DOMINICK DUNNE

My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what’s the point if I can’t remember where my...
JONATHAN DUNNE

My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE

Even if we don’t have a clock, we’re all on the clock – from clocking in and out at work to cl...
JONATHAN DUNNE

Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.
JONATHAN DUNNE

So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn’t see her bottom half?
JONATHAN DUNNE

I think we kind of underestimated them. We came out tired. When we realized that we weren't playing ...
KELLY DUNNE

Hyundai's ascendancy shows that American consumers are always open to a good deal.
MICHAEL DUNNE

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if...
PHILIP DUNNE

Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of ag...
PHILIP DUNNE

I've always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.
DOMINICK DUNNE

It's always bittersweet to sell your client. But hopefully you're never really selling the business,...
JIMMY DUNNE

John and the North Fork team gave us a chance. And Herman was a great teacher and partner. He always...
JIMMY DUNNE

What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. T...
JONATHAN DUNNE

We were paying attention to the $500 million and $1 billion companies 10 years ago, so when they gro...
JIMMY DUNNE

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.
J.W. DUNNE

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which di...
J.W. DUNNE

Our intention, over time, is to drive a substantial amount of our revenue onto a multi-trip flight-p...
BRIAN DUNNE

She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I alwa...
DOMINICK DUNNE

They are left out there with egg on their face.
DOMINICK DUNNE

[So and so] is still alive?!
DOMINICK DUNNE

I am so bummed out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people an...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they’re not so funny anymore.
JONATHAN DUNNE

You’re wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fai...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum...
GAVIN DUNNE

People I know inside Chery say (it will happen) no sooner than 2008.
MICHAEL DUNNE

People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of...
PETE DUNNE

He wants to put his electorate first and I respect that decision,
PETER DUNNE

It was quite a heady time. Living in a guesthouse in the hills and just having a crazy life. And I t...
ROBIN DUNNE

That venue is set up for dancing.
RICHARD DUNNE

We're eating Ramen Noodles chicken and beef that's what we eat everyday.
AHMAD GRIFFIN

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.
AHMAD GRIFFIN

We're eating Ramen Noodles ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â chicken and beef ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬...
AHMAD GRIFFIN

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's our...
AHMAD GRIFFIN

I know that they are all right, I just don't know where they at.
AHMAD GRIFFIN

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenag...
KATHY GRIFFIN

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc...
TIM GRIFFIN

My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jer...
ERIK GRIFFIN

He commended us on how great a win it was. That would have been a devastating loss. He didn't really...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

I felt something pop in there. I'll wait and see how it feels.
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

But he can't go out on the court and play. We have to take some accountability as players.
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

We got the win, it didn't matter how ugly it was. We needed to get back on track.
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

Guys get hurt and other guys have got to pull their weight and pick up the slack. We don't make excu...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

We just followed the game plan. Defending those guys is just a total team effort.
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

We've got excellent scorers. Why do they need me to take shots away from them? I know what I need to...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

I think that is why we came out with a lot of energy. We know he is capable of putting up big number...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

Whoever guarded him played with a lot of energy. Fortunately, he didn't get going like he usually ca...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

It starts with the coach. He gets us ready. We're very prepared. You look at our second unit, even o...
ADRIAN GRIFFIN

It is Joplin, the wind is usually blowing in Joplin. You can open your window and get a pretty decen...
ADAM GRIFFIN

This is the annual time of year for the air-conditioning complaint.
ADAM GRIFFIN

This is the best attendance we've had in three or four years. I appreciate the work the body has don...
ADAM GRIFFIN

We've had a high demand on single rooms. They are paying more for them, so we wanted to offer them m...
ADAM GRIFFIN

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being to...
ARCHIE GRIFFIN

To me, the Heismans symbolize (how great of a team we were) because that success could not happen in...
ARCHIE GRIFFIN

My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win...
ARCHIE GRIFFIN

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right...
ARCHIE GRIFFIN

What most people don't know is all the good things that the coach did without anybody knowing. For i...
ARCHIE GRIFFIN

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
KATHY GRIFFIN

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and ...
PATTY GRIFFIN

While I am talking about private sector job creation, the cap-and-trade energy tax, Speaker Pelosi&#...
TIM GRIFFIN

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'V...
KATHY GRIFFIN

People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, the...
TIM GRIFFIN

We got fatigued (from the press). I think our legs started getting out of our shots and they were ri...
ANDREW GRIFFIN

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.
ANDREW GRIFFIN

They probably had five fans for every fan we had. It was so loud that we couldn't communicate with e...
ANDREW GRIFFIN

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.
ANDREW GRIFFIN

They came out with more intensity, more energy. We didn't really show it tonight. A win is a win, bu...
ANDREW GRIFFIN

What's happening now is the gap is widening, and some of the manufacturing processes [in memory] are...
ANDREW GRIFFIN

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically ...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country.
TIM GRIFFIN

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over ...
TIMOTHY GRIFFIN

When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi."
"You've seen Star Wars?"
"Seen it a...
KATE GRIFFIN

We have to work harder to show distinction.
ANGELA GRIFFIN

The unity, teamwork and friendships we forged will go on.
ANGELA GRIFFIN

There is going to be testing and commercialization of technology that focuses on clean energy.
ANGELA GRIFFIN

It's difficult to give one person an advantage over another because they were displaced by the hurri...
ANGELA GRIFFIN

I am absolutely over the moon. The baby's due next June. But I haven't found out the sex of the chil...
ANGELA GRIFFIN

Texas schools are opening their doors to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. We want to help th...
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

Texas schools are opening their doors to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees,
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

We're going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and it's going to be d...
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

WeÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â´re going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and i...
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

Texas schools are opening their doors to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. We want to help th...
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

It is important to get these children back into a stable school environment as quickly as possible.
ANNETTE GRIFFIN

The beauty of Spring Training is there's always a lot of new faces. Everybody's excited and you've g...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a p...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

I'm here because I want this to come out well and I have a lot of respect for the boys on the team. ...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

I'm not sure if the USA has ever been exposed to this type of tradition. Fans in the USA applaud but...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

Same thing they did in the regular season. Fastballs, change-ups, he's just not swinging good.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

He said he is hitting the ball right at somebody.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

Tom was like a father to me.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

It's a Latin tradition that goes way back. It's a way to pump up the players and a way for the playe...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displayi...
KATHY GRIFFIN

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to wo...
PATTY GRIFFIN

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ...
KATHY GRIFFIN

I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and...
PATTY GRIFFIN

I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,...
PATTY GRIFFIN

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I c...
KATHY GRIFFIN

I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.
BETHANY GRIFFIN

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families,...
KATHY GRIFFIN

I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.
TIM GRIFFIN

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to pe...
ERIK GRIFFIN

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we h...
GERALD GRIFFIN

There's really no rivalry with us and (Wesley Chapel), even though we're in the same county. That wa...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

With those units, it may be the place for a higher-end restaurant. Being across from the Maritime Aq...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

Now everything has got a seal on it.
BRIAN GRIFFIN

(Nauta) actually played very well in all the games. It's really tough to fault the goalie. He played...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

We are just really concerned about the impact [the insurers' moratorium] is going to have on hospita...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

In fiscal year 2006, we expect to spend in excess of $29 million on community benefits, which includ...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

Our plan right now is to proceed with our timetable as it was approved by the board of directors, wh...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

We want to increase employee satisfaction, and it's important for us to have it as an effective recr...
BRIAN GRIFFIN

For the public, we wanted to make it easier and more convenient to access health information.
BRIAN GRIFFIN

This is building community by putting people on the streets. That is what makes cities work.
BRIAN GRIFFIN

You should be happy to go to work every day.
BRENDA GRIFFIN

I can't tell you one.
BRENDA GRIFFIN

I can leave knowing that this school is operating smoothly.
BRENDA GRIFFIN

When you get buy-in from everybody and you get suggestions, that is what makes a school successful.
BRENDA GRIFFIN

I'm walking into what seems to be the perfect situation.
BRENDA GRIFFIN

If there are a lot of calls, we do take a look at that stuff. Some people like to demonize us. In ma...
BOB GRIFFIN

The operating schedule is a collective decision based on a monstrous review a couple years back.
BOB GRIFFIN

She's covered all the bases wonderfully. She works well with both staffs.
BOB GRIFFIN

The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our ...
BOB GRIFFIN

I would hope [students] would understand we don't arbitrarily look to raise the board rate.
BOB GRIFFIN

It's a matter of the costs of doing business. We have a yearly sit-down with a dining services contr...
BOB GRIFFIN

We are kicking it off next week and the plan is have it deployed by fall.
BOB GRIFFIN

She has a very patron-oriented point of view.
BOB GRIFFIN

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier...
GERALD GRIFFIN

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
MERV GRIFFIN

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the si...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
SUSAN GRIFFIN

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
KATHY GRIFFIN

We've tried everything we can, and will continue to enforce the law.
CAROL GRIFFIN

There are so many awesome things you can do with the board, that I'm still learning all it can do.
CAROL GRIFFIN

Some people donate money; I donate time. There's never enough people to give time.
CAROL GRIFFIN

I don't like to work and make money. I like to volunteer; it's more rewarding.
CAROL GRIFFIN

Thirty years ago when I started, I was teaching kids how to work a cassette player. This is the futu...
CAROL GRIFFIN

It's not fair that people who work, save, and pay for their cell phones are forced to fund the L...
TIM GRIFFIN

It's clear (in the recorded interview) his comprehension (of English) is not that great. They had cl...
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a ...
TIM GRIFFIN

They had no life paddles, no life vests, no personal protective equipment. They weren't familiar wit...
DAN GRIFFIN

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, y...
PATTY GRIFFIN

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women constru...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

The men who still have the largest share of the power in society don't do any domestic work. The ver...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
SUSAN GRIFFIN

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
SUSAN GRIFFIN

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytim...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ...
SUSAN GRIFFIN

We're supposed to be a team, ... Team chemistry this year, baby.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

It is entirely appropriate for the administration to announce or espouse whatever political views th...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad fol...
PATTY GRIFFIN

We're limited by recklessness. You must reach a standard where the conduct is wanton, inconsiderate ...
ED GRIFFIN

The legislation passed by Congress reflects the U.S. government's continuing commitment to nonprolif...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America,...
PATTY GRIFFIN

If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.
KATHY GRIFFIN

I'm sure (the Hayats) are disappointed, ... They really wanted their day in court to clear their nam...
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

What this proves is that the government is not prepared to try this case, plain and simple.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

Roane County lost a very good man in Tony Mason. He touched a lot of lives. I don't think I know any...
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

If Wildcat could not get information for the FBI, Wildcat would not be paid.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

When I signed here, all I ever heard was I was overpaid, that I was an underachiever,
CORNELIUS GRIFFIN

He knew his son was being held and he believed they would let him and his son go if he cooperated.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN

They're rare as hens teeth and quite valuable, ... But we prefer to think of it as rare, and not the...
JOHN GRIFFIN

Currently, the Pegasus Pipeline runs through about 13 miles of the Lake Maumelle watershed and also ...
TIM GRIFFIN

He reached in my car, unlocked the door, ripped me out of the car and he actually threw me on the gr...
ROBERT GRIFFIN

We believe this venture safer and more affordable than any other spaceflight ventures that the U.S. ...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet poin...
KATHY GRIFFIN

Discussions on the San Antonio project are ongoing, and we are very optimistic.
JOHN GRIFFIN

So when the penguin takes a step, its center of mass is low, so when he stops coming up over his leg...
TIM GRIFFIN

We're eating Ramen Noodles chicken and beef that's what we eat everyday.
AHMAD GRIFFIN

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.
AHMAD GRIFFIN

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.
KATHY GRIFFIN

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the b...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

It is exactly the type of enterprise which should be left to industry and the [commercial] marketpla...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

It's interesting to note that John Kerry refused to debate John Edwards one-on-one during the Democr...
TAYLOR GRIFFIN

The Bush-Cheney campaign looks for a vigorous debate at the appropriate time. But John Kerry should ...
TAYLOR GRIFFIN

Wash your fresh fruits and vegetables before you eat them. Peel your fruits and cut out any parts th...
PATRICIA GRIFFIN

Right now, we're still addressing what the implications are on the shuttle launch schedule, and if I...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

Right now, we're still addressing what the implications are on the shuttle launch schedule. If I don...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

Obviously, we've been beaten up pretty well.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

We're going to try as hard as we can to get back in space this year because we have a big constructi...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

This time, it was Michoud's turn to take a bullet for the team,
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

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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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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