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