About Douglas Sirk: Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.
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.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
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.
You have to think with the heart.
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
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.
