Vincente Minnelli Quotes

#1. The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

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#2. If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

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#3. I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

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#4. Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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#5. But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

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#6. I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

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#7. Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

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#8. It's the story that counts.

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#9. I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

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#10. Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

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#11. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

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#12. West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

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#13. I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

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#14. In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

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#15. I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.

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#16. I learn new things all the time.

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#17. But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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#18. But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

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#19. It's always the story that interests me.

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#20. We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

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#21. American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

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#22. Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

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#23. If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

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#24. I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

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#25. I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

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#26. Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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#27. Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

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#28. I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

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#29. I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

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#30. No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

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#31. Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

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#32. I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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#33. I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

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#34. The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

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