David O. Selznick Quotes

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

  David O. Selznick

  Details, Attention, Paid

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

  David O. Selznick

  Class, Two, Firsts

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• 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, Wind, Pyramids

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

  David O. Selznick

  Hollywood, Rooms, Facade

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• 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, Continuity Of Life, Religion

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

  David O. Selznick

  Causes, Trouble, Accurate

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

  David O. Selznick

  Different, World, Feels

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• Thank God for your mother.

  David O. Selznick

  Mother, Thank God

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

  David O. Selznick

  Christmas, Depressing, Holiday

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

  David O. Selznick

  Morning, Thinking, Fog

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

  David O. Selznick

  Good Day, Rue, Judgment

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

  David O. Selznick

  Opinion, Share, Circumstances

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

  David O. Selznick

  Ideas, Stealing, Shots

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

  David O. Selznick

  Eruption, Grapes

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• I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

  David O. Selznick

  Schedules, Permit, Paramount

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

  David O. Selznick

  Guarantees, Accepting, Contracts

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

  David O. Selznick

  Opposites, Ifs And, Married

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