Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Painter, Surrealism, Then, Dali

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

Sat, Many, Fortunately, Welles

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Stories, Allow, Area, Improvisation

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Color, Anything, Black-And-White

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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Art, Grand, Cardinal, Department

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

- Vincente Minnelli

See, I See, Films, Fellini

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

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Through, Going, Weeks, Venezuela

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

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Audience, Anticipate, Changed

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

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Think, I Think, Stories, Backstage

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

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New York, New, Mine, Thirties

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

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Coffee, Know, Always, Sugar

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

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Think, Important, Deal, Musicals

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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Movie, Over, Films, Popular

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Made, Films, Charles, Douglas

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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Woman, Screen, Written, Designing

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Always, Van, Van Gogh, Gogh

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

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Places, Van, Worked, Gogh

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Lot, Worked, Awful Lot, None

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Minds, Compete, Anybody, Magazine

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

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Dancing, New, Side, Gangs

It's always the story that interests me.

- Vincente Minnelli

Me, Story, Always, Interests

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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See, Like, Whether, Essentially

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

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Character, Fine, Use, Points

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

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Bride, Curious, Pirate, Surrealism

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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Present, Pictures, Most, Surrealism

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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Happen, Things, Actually, Drawn

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Born, Started, Painter, Theater

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

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Entertainment, Resist, Given, Theater

It's the story that counts.

- Vincente Minnelli

Story, Movies, Counts

I learn new things all the time.

- Vincente Minnelli

Learn, New, Things, New Things

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