Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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Vincente Minnelli

Profession : Director

Birth : February 28, 1903

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

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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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

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

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I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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It's always the story that interests me.

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

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

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

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Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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I learn new things all the time.

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

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I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

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We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

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

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

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

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

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