Quotes by Douglas Sirk - Page 1

You have to think with the heart.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Broken Heart
Heart Broke
Thinking
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If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Designer
Knows
Set Designer
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Artist
Heart
Thinking
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Movies
Film
Gamble
Produce
Gambler
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Directors
Hollywood
My Time
Wanted
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Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Lighting
Employ
Naturalistic
Pictures
Throughout
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Character
Innocence
Innocent
Picture
Remain
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Party
Socialist
Socialist Party
Belonged
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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Home
People
Considered
Describe
Exactly
Homes
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
New Philosophy
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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Men
Beautiful
Educated
Rocks
Hudson
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Crafts
Proud
Style
Craft
Pictures
Regarded
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Art
Beauty
Bourgeois
Century
Frozen
Ideas
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Anarchism
Marxism
Rosa
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Cameras
Critics
Doe
Eye
Camera
Critic
Human Eye
Perceptive
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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 / Film Director
Art
Banality
Belief
Style
Worthy
Common Belief
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Excellent
Meaningful
Promise
Rotten
Sly
Weak
Condition
Endings
Express
Joint
Ultimately
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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 / Film Director
Myself Always World
Failings
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
American Life
Average
Developing
Ideas
People
Life Time People
Average People
Period
Slowly
Little People
Samples
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Angle
Craftsmanship
Gone
Reason
Optical
Pictures
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
American Society
Farm
Fernando
San
Valley
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This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Art
Quality
Distance
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
America
Pseudo Intellectuals
Real
Intellectually
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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 / Film Director
Dirty
Hands
Los Angeles
Moved
Naughty
Angeles
Somewhere
Los
Near
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There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Glasses
Real
Reflection
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Opportunity
Directors
Scandal
Begin
Comedies
Project
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Art
Ideas
Melodrama
Perfection
Formed
Slowly
Pictures
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Pleasant
Shooting
Young Man
Man Me Picture
Picture
Assistant
Man Me Young
Hunter
Interfered
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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.
Douglas Sirk / Film Director
Lectures
Proven
Relativity
Theory
Picture
Attended
Began
Einstein
Physical World
Suggested
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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. 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 / Film Director
Home
Character
Wife
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