All Douglas Sirk Quotes
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.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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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.
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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.
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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
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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.
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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.
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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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