David O. Selznick Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank God for your mother.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

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