Douglas Sirk Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”

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

“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.”

“You have to think with the heart.”

“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.”

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

“I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.”