Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Coffee, Sugar, Cream

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• 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.

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  Conscious, Hundred, Made

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Stories

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Ideas, Right Ideas

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• I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Character, Color, Stories

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• I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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  Happens, Seems

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• Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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  Design, Written, Screens

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• It's always the story that interests me.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Directors, Stories, Interest

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• It's the story that counts.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Stories

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

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  Thinking, Important, Deals

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Song, Stars, Important

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Way, Surrealism, Painter

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Venezuela, Week, Fantastic

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• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

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  New York, Dancing, Style

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• I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Born, Theater, Painter

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• If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Want, Ifs

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• I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

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  People, Awful, Tracy

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• If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Book, Competition, Mind

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

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  Father, Pirate, Way

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• The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Father, Book, Men

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

  Vincente Minnelli

  Stories, Actors, Chemicals

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• But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Surrealism

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• 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.

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  Men, Stories, Sat

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• I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Entertainment, Theater, Given

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• Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Art, Cardinals, Department

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