Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

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

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

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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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• 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 the story that counts.

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• It’s always the story that interests me.

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

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

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

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

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

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• I learn new things all the time.

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

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

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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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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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