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.
You have to think with the heart. - Douglas Sirk
You have to think with the heart.
- Douglas Sirk
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 … - Douglas Sirk
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 …
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… - Douglas Sirk
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…
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 S… - Douglas Sirk
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 S…
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 compl… - Douglas Sirk
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 compl…
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. - Douglas Sirk
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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 … - Douglas Sirk
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 …
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. - Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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
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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