Best 22 quotes of Vincente Minnelli on MyQuotes

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.

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

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

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

It's always the story that interests me.

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

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

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.

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

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