Author: Douglas Sirk

Quotes

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.

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

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

- 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 San Fernando Valley.

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

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

- Douglas Sirk

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

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

- Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

- Douglas Sirk

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

- Douglas Sirk

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

- Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

- Douglas Sirk

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