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