Vincente Minnelli

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

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

“I learn new things all the time.”

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

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

“No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.”

“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.”

“Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.”

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

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

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

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

“It's the story that counts.”

“The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.”

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

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

“It's always the story that interests me.”

“But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.”

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

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