Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirkwas a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 April 1897
CountryGermany
beauty art ideas
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
party socialist-party socialist
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
beautiful men rocks
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
heart thinking artist
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
art distance quality
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
art consist effect german-director line straight
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.
audiences continue german-director melodrama
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.
america except german-director knew theater
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.