45 Quotes by Douglas Sirk

Only on Thunder did I have a producer who was interfering with my work. He was the only one at Universal. After that film I believe they fired him.

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.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

You have to think with the heart.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

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.

Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.

I knew Law, and I knew theater. I didn't, of course, know American law, and in America the theater did not exist, except for Broadway.

I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.