Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Vincente Minnelli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director Vincente Minnelli.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. He directed the classic movie musicals Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), An American in Paris (1951), The Band Wagon (1953), and Gigi (1958). An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi. In addition to having directed some of the best known musicals of his day, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; the couple were the parents of Liza Minnelli.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
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. — © Vincente Minnelli
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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.
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
It's always the story that interests me.
I learn new things all the time.
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream. — © Vincente Minnelli
I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
It's the story that counts.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
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.
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.
If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.
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