David O. Selznick Quotations

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

Thank God for your mother.

There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

I try to think of Pop, but all this does is sink me with memories of him, reawakening the depression over him I've been fighting to get over.