Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America.… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
