All in all, I find that women behave just as despicably as men do, and I try to illustrate the reasons for this: namely, that we have been led astray by our upbringing and by the society we live in.
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings.
Sirk told me what the studio bosses in Hollywood told him: a film has to to over in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Okinawa, and in Chicago - just try to think what the common denominator might be for people in all those places.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, I'm convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick.
We are aware of the City of Frankfurt's social and political traditions, we are familiar with the TAT and the Volksbahne (people's theatre) organisations.
We intend to mobilise that knowledge and our aspirations towards producing a people's theatre in the broadest sense of the term at the TAT.
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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