David O. Selznick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
-- David O. Selznick

#Ideas #Stealing #Shots
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.
-- David O. Selznick

#Blow #Egypt #Wind
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.
-- David O. Selznick

#What Matters #Religion #Generations
I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
-- David O. Selznick

#Morning #Thinking #Fog
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
-- David O. Selznick

#Good Day #Rue #Judgment
Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
-- David O. Selznick

#Opinion #Share #Circumstances
Thank God for your mother.
-- David O. Selznick

#Mother #Thank God
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
-- David O. Selznick

#Details #Attention
There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.
-- David O. Selznick

#Class #Two #Firsts
If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
-- David O. Selznick

#Causes #Trouble #Accurate
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
-- David O. Selznick

#Guarantees #Accepting #Contracts
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
-- David O. Selznick

#Opposites #Ifs And #Married
I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
-- David O. Selznick

#Different #World #Feels
I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
-- David O. Selznick

#Eruption #Grapes
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
-- David O. Selznick

#Hollywood #Rooms #Facade
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
-- David O. Selznick

#Holiday #Sunday #Terrible
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
-- David O. Selznick

#Schedules #Permit

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