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
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If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
directors hollywood wanted
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
real america proud
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.
opportunity scandal saws
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.
beauty art ideas
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
party socialist-party socialist
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
beautiful men rocks
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
heart thinking artist
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
art distance quality
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
bought came far german-director land piece tiny
When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.
believe fired german-director producer thunder
Only on Thunder did I have a producer who was interfering with my work. He was the only one at Universal. After that film I believe they fired him.
german-director hunter
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.
german-director great
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
german-director hard
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.