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. 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

-Douglas Sirk

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I Was Making Films About American Society,

Douglas Sirk

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. 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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Home

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Wife

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.

Art

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