Vincente Quotes & Sayings

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever. — Damien Chazelle

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

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

Designing Woman was written for the screen. — Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

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

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

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. — 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 weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film - so he never moved it! It's like in the old days when sound first came in and was so complicated that the camera just sat there. There are hardly any close-ups in 'Kismet,' so everything's at a bit of a distance. — Robert Osborne

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

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

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. — Lorna Luft

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

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

April 2: Marilyn purchases a stuffed toy tiger from the San Vincente pharmacy for $2.08. — Carl Rollyson

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 love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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