In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. – Douglas Sirk

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. – Douglas Sirk
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar