All Douglas Sirk Quotes
- 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. Best
- My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period… American
- 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… All
- And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. Film
- You have to think with the heart. Broken
- The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. Art
- And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It… Attended
- At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. Anarchism
- 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… Always Wanted
- I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. Always Thought
- 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… American
- Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the… Actor