Stanley Donen's Profile
Brief about Stanley Donen: By info that we know Stanley Donen was born at 1924-04-13. And also Stanley Donen is American Director.
Some Stanley Donen's quotes. Goto "Stanley Donen's quotation" section for more.I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
Tags: Dance, Fun, SingingI think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Tags: DirectorJean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
Tags: Lies, Said, TruthMy childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Tags: Happy, Small, StoryWhat we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
Tags: Challenge, Easy, LifeI 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.'
Tags: Business, Old, ShowIt 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?'
Tags: Funny, Hard, MoviesPeople 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.
Tags: Mean, Sense, VisionThe 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.
Tags: Thought, Wanted, WonderfulThere 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.
Tags: Life, Mother, WordsThere'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.
Tags: Change, Film, PointWhat 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.
Tags: Difficult, Making, OpinionWhat 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.
Tags: Idea, Paris, RealRelated topics
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