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Douglas Sirk Quotes
A director in Hollywood in my time couldnt do what he wanted to do. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I didnt think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldnt know how it would go over with audiences here. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I knew Law, and I knew theater. I didnt, of course, know American law, and in America the theater did not exist, except for Broadway. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
If I couldnt read, I couldnt live. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Intellectualism came very late to America. Thats why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Only on Thunder did I have a producer who was interfering with my work. He was the only one at Universal. After that film I believe they fired him. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. - Douglas Sirk Quotes
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