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. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Damien Chazelle

#9. It's the story that counts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. I learn new things all the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#28. 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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#29. I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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

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

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

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

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

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#36. 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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