Douglas Sirk

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ”