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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

Topics: Angle Certain Craftsmanship Every Gone Nothing One Thing Optical Pictures Reason Say Thing Thought Which Without I Can

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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.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Attended Been Began Different Einstein His Lectures Now Only Physical Physical World Picture Proven Really Relativity Remained Remains Still Suggested Theory World

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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

Topics: Best Camera Critic Critics Does Eye Human More Much Never Perceptive See Than Your

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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Director He Hollywood My Time Time Wanted

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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Films Gamble Gambler Movies Must Produce You

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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Anarchism Art Became Course Marxism Political Rosa Same Same Time Time

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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Belonged Came Party Power Socialist Time

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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.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Always Characters Failings Find Had Hard Look More Myself Never Part Than Them Too Wanted World

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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.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Angeles Church Dirty Found Got Hands House Land Longer Los Los Angeles Moved Near Off Old Somewhere Took Used Very

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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Considered Describe Exactly Homes Live Lives People

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: April 26th, 1897

Died: January 14th, 1987

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