"Your characters have to remain innocent of what……" — Douglas Sirk

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. - Douglas Sirk

"Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after."

— 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…
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.
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I…

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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