Douglas Sirk German Director Quotations

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.

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 think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

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.

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.

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.

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.