Griffin Dunne Quotes

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

Griffin Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 8, 1955

Topics

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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

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Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Amanda Seyfried

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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Steven Spielberg

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I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

Mika

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There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

Michael Keaton

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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Jason Reitman

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Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.

Drew Carey

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Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.

Christopher Bond

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Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

Chris Matthews

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I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'

Chris Van Allsburg

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Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

Clive Owen

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