Vincente Minnelli quotes
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“I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.”
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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 started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.”
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“But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.”
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“Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.”
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“Designing Woman was written for the screen.”
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“I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.”
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“It's the story that counts.”
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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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“It's always the story that interests me.”
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“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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“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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“I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.”
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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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“But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.”
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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 had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.”
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“I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.”
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“I learn new things all the time.”
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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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“I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.”
-- Vincente MinnelliSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.”
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“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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“If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.”
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“Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.”
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“If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.”
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