Vincente Minnelli

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For instance, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Sally Benson was writing about her own family in St. Louis at the time.

Vincente Minnelli

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

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

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

Vincente Minnelli

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

Vincente Minnelli

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

Vincente Minnelli

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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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.

Vincente Minnelli

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

Vincente Minnelli

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

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Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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

Vincente Minnelli

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

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