Vincente Minnelli Quotes

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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 not conscious of, but that accumulate.

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

I learn new things all the time.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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 marvelous man.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.