Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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 made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

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

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

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

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

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

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• But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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• Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. That’s what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

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• I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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

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

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Vincente Minnelli (29)

Birth:	28th February, 1903
Death:	25th July, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director

About

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas.

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