"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."

-- Douglas Sirk

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“As a man I am not a killer. Iâ€™m an artist and a modern person. Iâ€™ll choose sanity.”
“I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.”
“The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.”
“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”
“It's like peanut butter and chocolate. Each is great, but they're better together.”
“Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.”
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
“I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.”

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