What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.'… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun. — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
