When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.
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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.Douglas Sirk
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.
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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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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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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.
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