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Portrait of Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen

(1924–2019) Film Director United States

17 quotes in 106 categories

Stanley Donen was a film director from the United States, best known for It's always fair weather.

Quick Facts About Stanley Donen

Born: April 13, 1924
Died: February 21, 2019
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: It's always fair weather
Spouse: Yvette Mimieux

About Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998, and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Honorary Award

Quotes by Stanley Donen

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and…

Feels

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There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore -…

Disappear

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Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Cinema

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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was…

Admiring

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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me,…

Business

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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me…

Call me

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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Challenges

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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Childhood

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When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

Fred astaire

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You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of…

Happened

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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city…

Choices

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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

Dance

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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Friendship

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I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

Cinema

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You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had…

Direct

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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby…

Aversion

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People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed,…

Compliment

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