But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
From Douglas Sirk
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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.
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
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.
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.
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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