"What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire……" — Stanley Donen
"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 opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen."
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Stanley Donen
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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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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in…
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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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