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Douglas Sirk Quotes
Page 2 of 2Douglas Sirk
April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987
Nationality: German
Category: Director
Subcategory: German Director
|  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. | | Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. | | 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. | | I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. | | In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. | | I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. | | I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. | | At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. |
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