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Douglas Sirk's Profile

Brief about Douglas Sirk: By info that we know Douglas Sirk was born at 1970-01-01. And also Douglas Sirk is German Director.

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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.

Tags: Learned, Picture, Young

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.

Tags: Art, Belief, Politics

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Tags: American, Comedy, Seen

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.

Tags: Happy, Promise, Weak

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

Tags: Films, Gamble, Movies

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.

Tags: Gone, Reason, Thought

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.

Tags: America, Real, Why

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.

Tags: American, Idea, Mind

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Tags: Hollywood, Time, Wanted

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

Tags: Art, Political, Time

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Tags: Party, Power, Time

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

Tags: Describe, Exactly, Lives

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

Tags: Pictures, Proud, Style

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Tags: Great, Heart, Thought

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

Tags: Designer, Worked

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

Tags: Read

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

Tags: Art, Beauty, Politics

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

Tags: Beautiful, Body, Rock

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

Tags: Art, End, War

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

Tags: Employ, Lighting, Pictures
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