Douglas Sirk Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Douglas Sirk Quotes and Sayings


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    A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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    And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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    At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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    In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    You have to think with the heart. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. Douglas Sirk | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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