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. 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
Douglas SirkIn the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Douglas SirkFor 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 SirkMy 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.
Douglas Sirk