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

- Vincente Minnelli

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- 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

It's always the story that interests me.

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- 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

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

- Vincente Minnelli

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

- Vincente Minnelli

I learn new things all the time.

- Vincente Minnelli