Vincente Minnelli Quotations

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

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.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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

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

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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

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.

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