"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't……" — Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

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32 Quotes by Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into…
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They…
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains…
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't…
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps…
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief…
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved…
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

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