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Stanley Donen Quotes

American - Director | April 13, 1924 -

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.'

Business Me Flying Down More Old

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Life Challenge Think Easy Something

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.

Music Picture You New Know Movies

I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

Dance Fun Singing Better I Can More

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.

Opinion Doing Look Want Genuine Got

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.

Change Little Things Way More Gone

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?'

Funny City Choices Face Doing You

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.

Think Feel Paris Know Way Real

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Love People Friends Only Who Many

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Truth Think Cinema Said Lies Second

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

World Perfect Everything Fred Astaire

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

Myself Think Kind Director I Think

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