You have to think with the heart.

- 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…

- Douglas Sirk

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

- 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…

- 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

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

- 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 …

- 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.

- 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…

- Douglas Sirk