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Thomas Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor, film producer, and film director. Dunne studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

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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.

Actor, Actors, Directors, Like, Producer, Should Have

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.

Character, Characters, Feels, Heads, Parts, Playing

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

Able, Act, Apologizing, Gave, Jobs, 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.

Everybody, Feelings, Guy, Party, Time, Work

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

Dream, Fall, Love, Lover, Supposed

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.

Directors, Envy, Having, Looks, Movie

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

80S, Amy, Robinson, Six

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

Act, Director, Directors, Feeds, Learn, Time

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Movies, New York, Shot, Shots, Should, York

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Actor, Actors, Hunger, Memories, Work, Wound

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

Interested, Limiting, Schizophrenic

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.

Independent, Like, Long, Small, Stories

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.

Benefits, Bottom, Cheaper, Lines, Shoot, Toronto

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Filmmaking, Inspired, Inspiring, Movie, Narrative

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

Mcqueen, Met, Mets, Steve, Wells

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.

Cut, Cutting, Pigs, Sorts, System, Thinking

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.

Mean, New York, People, Skyscraper, Thinking, Way

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.

Cut, Cutting, Executive, Interesting, Reading, Studio

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