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 me…

- Stanley Donen

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 apocryph…

- 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, t…

- Stanley Donen

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 direc…

- 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,…

- Stanley Donen

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 r…

- 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…

- Stanley Donen

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

- 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 t…

- Stanley Donen