All Douglas Sirk Quotes
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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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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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.
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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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.
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
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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.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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