Douglas Sirk

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

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

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.