Vincente Minnelli Quotes

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

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
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Important, Deal, Musicals

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

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
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Present, Pictures, Surrealism

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
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Art, Grand, Department

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Life, Great, Painter

Designing Woman was written for the screen.
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Woman, Written, Designing

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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Story, Writer, Worked

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

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

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
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Story, Involved, Liked

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

I learn new things all the time.
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I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.
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Made, Two, Three

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
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Wonderful, Films, Fellini

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
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Happen, Actually, Seem

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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Started, Born, Theater

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Character, Story, Bring

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

Worked, Awful, Hepburn

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

Book, Different, Minds

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

It's always the story that interests me.
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Story, Interests

It's the story that counts.
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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.
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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 28, 1903

Died: January 25, 1986

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