Quotes by Stanley Donen - Page 1

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Directors
Meat
Thinking
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When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Perfect
This World
World
Astaire
Danced
Fred
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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Fun
Littles
Singing
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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Friends
Many Friends
People
Really
Love People Who
Only
Who
Too
Few
Few People
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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Challenges
Easy
Thinking
Challenge
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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Childhood
Grim
Long
Southern
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Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Truth
Cinema
Lying
Said
Thinking
Frames
Lies
Second
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Dancing
Flying
Years
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Dancing
Flying
Nine
Rio
Show Business
Approximately
Business Me Anything
Astaire
Fred
Influenced
More Than Anything
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What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Ideas
Real
Thinking
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You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Reason
Sound
Stills
Fairly
Musicals
New Thing
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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Call Me
Firsts
Mother
Life Me My Life
Mr
Exaggerate
Mrs
Suspect
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People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Compliment
Defined
Mean
People
Style
Vision
Clearly
Me Style People
Narrow
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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Admiring
Genuine
Looks
Unseen
Want
Astaire
Equally
Fred
In My Opinion
Remain
Screen
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You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Direct
Long
Moving
Struggle
Producer
Musicals
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There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Film
Gone
It Is What It Is
Little Things
Littles
No Point
Photograph
Use
Anymore
Disappearing
Liking
Point
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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Aversion
Berkeley
Positively
Thinking
Years
Formative
Funniest
Funniest Thing
Influenced
Negatively
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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Choices
Glorious
Surprising
Making Movies
Reject
Wondering
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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: "am I doing it right?"
Stanley Donen / Film Director
Cities
Paris
Unique
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