Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
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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.
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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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You have to think with the heart.
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
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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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Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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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.
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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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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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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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