Stanley Donen Quotes

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• I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
• I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
• I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
• Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
• What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
• When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
• I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything,…
• It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious,…
• People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I…
• The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in…
• 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.' But…
• 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 little…
• 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 my…
• 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…
• You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could…
• You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success,…

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