Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's the story that counts.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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.

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

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

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

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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

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

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

It's always the story that interests me.

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

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

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.