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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I am what "I click" every day. I am what I watch. I am what I refuse or accept. I am not better than you and you are not better than me. I am here to lead by serving and to serve by loving.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

I go to the dentist, not a shrink.