Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelliwas an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 February 1903
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
It's the story that counts.
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
It's always the story that interests me.
Having started as a designer I have a lot to do with settings and costumes, because I think they relate to the story and character, explain it.
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.
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.
You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer.
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.