David O. Selznick Quotes


"Thank God for your mother."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: God, Mother)

"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
(Related: Religion, Life, Improvement)

"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Success, Attention, Detail, Production)

"There are only two classes - first class and no class."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Class, First)

"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Ideas)

"This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Eye, May, Open)

"Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy."
- David O. Selznick
"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Day, Wrong)

"If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Will)

"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Circumstances, Opinion, Right)

"If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Will)

"I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Christmas, Holidays)

"I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions."
- David O. Selznick
"I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Work)

"I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule."
- David O. Selznick
"I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Day, World)

"Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Writing)

"At this rate, I'll live forever."
- David O. Selznick
"If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Cause, Trouble)

"It's all right; it's not so much fun any more."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Fun, Right)