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Vincente Minnelli [1903-1986] American

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Director, Stage Director

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris.

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Color can do anything that black-and-white can.		101
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.		102
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.		103
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.		104
It's the story that counts.	Movies	105
I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.		106
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.		107
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.		108
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.		109
Designing Woman was written for the screen.		110
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.		111
I learn new things all the time.		112
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.		113
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.		114
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.		115
I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.		116
It's always the story that interests me.		117
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.		118
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.		119
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.		120
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.		121
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.		122
I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.		123
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.		124
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.		125
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.		126
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.		201
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.		202
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.		203
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.		204

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