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