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