Douglas Sirk — German Director born on April 26, 1897, died on January 14, 1987

Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s... (wikipedia)

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.