A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.Douglas Sirk
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.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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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.
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I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.
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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.
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