#y

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

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. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#body #educated #hands #his #hudson

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. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#assistant #before #during #hunter #interfered

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#create #end #era #new #new philosophy

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

— Douglas Sirk

#i #lighting #naturalistic #pictures #throughout

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

#american films #because #begin #comedies #comedy

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#camera #critic #critics #does #eye

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #innocent #picture #remain #your

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#ever #judgmental #reason #star #star trek