I’ve worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

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Vincente Minnelli, an American director, explains that he has collaborated with many different people in his work. He mentions two famous actors, Katy Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, as examples of the impressive group of individuals he has worked with over the course of his career.

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

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It’s the story that counts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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

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Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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

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

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

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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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

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

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

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I learn new things all the time.

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

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

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

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It’s always the story that interests me.

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I’ve worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

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I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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

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

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