Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. Douglas Sirk More Quotes by Douglas Sirk More Quotes From 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 many pseudo-intellectuals. Douglas Sirk pseudo-intellectuals real america 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 distance quality art Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. Douglas Sirk rocks beautiful men At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. Douglas Sirk socialist-party socialist party I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart. Douglas Sirk artist heart thinking 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 wife home character 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 scandal opportunity directors 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 cameras eye doe A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. Douglas Sirk hollywood wanted directors If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. Douglas Sirk ifs I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. Douglas Sirk home people I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. Douglas Sirk designer knows 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 rotten meaningful promise In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk beauty ideas art Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. Douglas Sirk innocent innocence character And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. Douglas Sirk gamble produce film You have to think with the heart. Douglas Sirk heart-broke broken-heart thinking 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 angle gone reason I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. Douglas Sirk crafts style proud 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 perfection ideas art
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