45 Quotes by Douglas Sirk

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.

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

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

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

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.

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.