Douglas Sirk

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Douglas Sirk

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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 to find a part of myself in them. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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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 excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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