Quotes by Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart.

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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen...

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

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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not...

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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because...

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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were...

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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to...

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Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man,...

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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was...

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My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine...

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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I...

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea...

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