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> [A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/a-director-in-hollywood-in-my-time-couldn-t-do-what-he-wanted-to-do/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/there-is-a-wonderful-expression-seeing-through-a-glass-darkly/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/there-arose-a-belief-in-style-and-in-banality-banality-encompassed/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/ross-hunter-was-my-assistant-on-take-me-to-town-he-was-a-young-man-an/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/at-the-time-i-belonged-to-the-socialist-party-and-hitler-came-to-power/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/in-the-19th-century-you-had-bourgeois-art-without-politics-an-almost/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/these-happy-endings-all-express-the-weak-and-sly-promise-that-the/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/a-director-in-hollywood-in-my-time-couldn-t-do-what-he-wanted-to-do/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/i-worked-for-ufa-as-a-set-designer-you-know/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/at-the-same-time-of-course-marxism-arose-rosa-luxembourg-leninism/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/my-idea-at-this-time-which-was-slowly-developing-was-to-create-a/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/the-war-was-the-end-of-an-era-in-art-as-well-and-we-were-trying-to/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/rock-hudson-was-not-an-educated-man-but-that-very-beautiful-body-of/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/i-think-the-great-artists-especially-in-literature-have-always/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/this-is-the-dialectic-there-is-a-very-short-distance-between-high-art/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

> [I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-sirk/i-think-the-great-artists-have-always-thought-with-the-heart/)

[Douglas Sirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-sirk/)

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