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
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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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.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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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.
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And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
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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.