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The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies. — Winston Churchill

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. — Douglas Sirk

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? — Bill Maher

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. — Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. — Douglas Sirk

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. — Douglas Sirk

My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go. — Tegan Quin

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. — Charles Bukowski

- You may know the value of turbans, but I know how far vanity can lead a man. — Paulo Coelho

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. — Douglas Sirk

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel. — Frank Black

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. — Douglas Sirk

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know. — Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman

It's not a woman I want right now, Mom. It's a man... — Riley Hart

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point — Harry S. Truman

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. — Douglas Sirk

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

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. — Douglas Sirk

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head. — Malcolm D. Lee

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. — Douglas Sirk

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm. — John J. Pershing

You have to think with the heart. — Douglas Sirk

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk