Author

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.

From Stanley Donen

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

From Stanley Donen

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

From Stanley Donen

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.

From Stanley Donen

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.

From Stanley Donen

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?'

From Stanley Donen

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.'

From Stanley Donen

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.

From Stanley Donen

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

From Stanley Donen

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.

From Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen

Notable Quotes

Authors with Similar Views

Debbie Reynolds

Anton du Beke

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Adam G. Sevani

Alan Furst

Authors with Opposing Views

Jason Moore

Alan Furst

Alastair Campbell

Anthony Minghella

Charles S. Dutton