Douglas Sirk Quotes

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

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. - Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart. - Douglas Sirk

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. - Douglas Sirk

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. - Douglas Sirk

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

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. - Douglas Sirk

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