German Director Quotes
180 German Director quotes:
"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
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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 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 think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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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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"I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know."
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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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"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic."
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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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