List of Douglas Sirk Quotes

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.

In The 19th Century, You Had Bourgeois Art Without Politics - An Almost Frozen Idea Of What Beauty Is.

At The Time I Belonged To The Socialist Party, And Hitler Came To Power.

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

I Worked For Ufa As A Set Designer, You Know.

I Never Regarded My Pictures As Very Much To Be Proud Of, Except In This, The Craft, The Style.

Throughout My Pictures I Employ A Lighting Which Is Not Naturalistic.

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.

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.

A Director In Hollywood In My Time Couldn't Do What He Wanted To Do.

If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

I Considered That The Homes That People Live In Exactly Describe Their Lives.