Vincente Minnelli Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

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

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it. — Vincente Minnelli

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

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

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. — Vincente Minnelli

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. — Vincente Minnelli

If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald. — Vincente Minnelli

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. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

Color can do anything that black-and-white can. — Vincente Minnelli

Designing Woman was written for the screen. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini. — Vincente Minnelli

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer. — Vincente Minnelli

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

It's always the story that interests me. — Vincente Minnelli

I learn new things all the time. — Vincente Minnelli

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department. — Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts. — Vincente Minnelli