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Douglas Sirk
German Director
Born: Apr 26, 1897
Died: Jan 14, 1987
American Art Picture Time World You
Related authors: Leni Riefenstahl Lexi Alexander Mike Nichols Rainer Werner Fassbinder Til Schweiger Werner Herzog Wim Wenders
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. Douglas Sirk
Thought Gone Nothing Every Say One Thing Angle Pictures Without Optical Craftsmanship Which Certain Reason Thing
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. Douglas Sirk
Few Late Proud Real Came Intellectually Intellectuals Very America American Many Found Why
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. Douglas Sirk
Time Director My Time He Wanted Hollywood
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. Douglas Sirk
World Picture Relativity Physical Only Physical World Remained Remains Attended Still Proven Been His Lectures Began Different Einstein Really Theory Now Suggested
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. Douglas Sirk
Time Power Party Came Socialist Socialist Party Belonged
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. Douglas Sirk
Old Church Somewhere Took Angeles Dirty Longer House Got Los Los Angeles Off Very Hands Moved Land Used Found Near
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. Douglas Sirk
Home Wife Farm Society Films Valley About Except Never True Perhaps Felt Making Fernando American San American Society Lived
If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. Douglas Sirk
Live Read
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk
Politics Art You Beauty Had Almost Idea Bourgeois Without Frozen Century
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. Douglas Sirk
Politics Art Style Too Worthy Because Were Banality Common Common Belief Belief
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. Douglas Sirk
Throughout Lighting Pictures Employ Which Naturalistic
You have to think with the heart. Douglas Sirk
You Heart Think
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. Douglas Sirk
Best Critic Eye Critics See More Perceptive Never Does Camera Than Human Human Eye Much Your

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