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Vincente Minnelli
American
Director
About the author
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Character
#Colors
I learn new things all the time.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Time
I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Woman
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Style
#Dancing
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#First
#Ballet
It's always the story that interests me.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
It's the story that counts.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Will
#Nothing
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Father
#Surrealism
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Work
#Actors
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Theater
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#World
#Popular
#American
#Stars
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Present
#Surrealism
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Art
Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Life
#Surrealism
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
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.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Man
#Writer
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#People
I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Coffee
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Vincente Minnelli,
American
Director
#Theater
#Entertainment