Quotes from Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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

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

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

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

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

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

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

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

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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

It's always the story that interests me.

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.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

I learn new things all the time.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

It's the story that counts.

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