Vincente Minnelli Quotes
- I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
- I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
- American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
- But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
- But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
- Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
- Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
- 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…
- I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
- I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
- If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
- Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
- If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.
- I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is…
- It's always the story that interests me.
- West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
- I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
- I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
- Designing Woman was written for the screen.
- But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.