Citas de Douglas Sirk

• Esta es la dialéctica: hay una distancia muy corta entre el arte y la basura, y la basura que contiene un elemento de locura está, por esta misma cualidad, más cerca del arte.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Distance, Quality

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, America, Pseudo Intellectuals

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• I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

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  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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• You have to think with the heart.

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  Broken Heart, Thinking, Heart Broke

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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.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Style, Belief

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• Tu cámara es el mejor crítico que existe. Los críticos nunca ven tanto como la cámara. Es más perceptiva que el ojo humano.

  Douglas Sirk

  Eye, Cameras, Doe

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• There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, Reflection, Glasses

  Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer (1991). “Imitation of Life”, p.228, Rutgers University Press

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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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  Beautiful, Men, Rocks

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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. 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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  Home, Character, Wife

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

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  Meaningful, Promise, Rotten

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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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  Art, Ideas, Perfection

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• My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

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  Promedio, Ideas, Gente

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• Tus personajes tienen que permanecer inocentes de lo que persigue tu foto.

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  Character, Innocence, Innocent

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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

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  Inicio, Personas

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

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  Si

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• A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

  Douglas Sirk

  Directors, Hollywood, Wanted

  "The Essentials: Douglas Sirk", www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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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.

  Douglas Sirk

  Gone, Reason, Angle

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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.

  Douglas Sirk

  Opportunity, Directors, Scandal

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• Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

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  Iluminación

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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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  Style, Crafts, Proud

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• I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

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  Designer, Knows

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• And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

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  Film, Produce, Gamble

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• At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

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  Party, Socialist Party, Socialist

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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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  Beauty, Art, Ideas

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• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

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  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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