Douglas Sirk Quotes
29 Douglas Sirk quotes:
"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."
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"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic."
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"Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
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"I knew Law, and I knew theater. I didn't, of course, know American law, and in America the theater did not exist, except for Broadway."
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"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
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"I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here."
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"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."
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