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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. Douglas Sirk Read Quote
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. Douglas Sirk Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. Douglas Sirk Read Quote
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 Read Quote
