"Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking." — Griffin Dunne

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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

- Griffin Dunne

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

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.