Douglas Sirk Quotes

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. - Douglas Sirk

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

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

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. - Douglas Sirk

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

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world. - Douglas Sirk

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. - Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. - Douglas Sirk

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