Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#artists #especially #great #heart #i

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt

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

— Douglas Sirk

#i #know #set #set designer #worked

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#certain #craftsmanship #every #gone #i

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#live #read

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

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#came #few #found #i #intellectualism

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

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

— Douglas Sirk

#body #educated #hands #his #hudson

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

— Douglas Sirk

#create #end #era #new #new philosophy