America Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

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

— 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…

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

— Douglas Sirk

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

— 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…

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

— Douglas Sirk