I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
From 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.
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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.
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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