German - Director | April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
Douglas Sirk
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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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.
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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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.
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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.
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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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