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Douglas Sirk

"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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"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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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

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"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."

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"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."
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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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"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."
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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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"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
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"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
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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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