"It was very hard to make 'Funny Face'……" — Stanley Donen
"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, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?"
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17 Quotes by Stanley Donen
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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
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I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
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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…
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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.
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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
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When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire…
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People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I…
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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to…
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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,…
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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…
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