46 Quotes by Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I work to please myself. I'm still not sure if movies are an art form. And if they're not, then let them inscribe on my tombstone what they could about any craftsman who loves his job: "Here lies Vincente Minnelli. He died of hard work.

But the idea of a man being killed during an episode of love and coming back as a woman started to impress me more and more and more.