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.
You have to think with the heart. - Douglas Sirk
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
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.
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…
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.
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 …
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.
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…
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