Douglas Sirk Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.”

“Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.”

“I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.”

“If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.”

“Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.”

“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.”

“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.”