Top 28 Quotes by Douglas Sirk

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

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

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to think with the heart.