Quotes from David O. Selznick


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.


At this rate, I'll live forever.


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


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


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


Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.


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


Thank God for your mother.