"If anyone has made their love life that complicated for themselves they won’t be able to live..."

“If anyone has made their love life that complicated for themselves they won’t be able to live happily afterwards. This is the kind of thing Douglas Sirk makes movies about. People can’t live alone, but they can’t live together either. This is why his movies are so desperate.”

- “Fassbinder on Sirk”, Film Comment, Nov-Dec. 1975 (via misssnippah)