Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirkwas a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 April 1897
CountryGermany
audiences continue german-director melodrama
I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.
art consist effect german-director line straight
Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.
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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.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
party socialist-party socialist
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
meaningful promise world
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.
home people
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
ifs
If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
lighting
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
eye cameras doe
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.
beauty art ideas
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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You have to think with the heart.