Top 30 Quotes by Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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

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

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.

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

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

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