Selznick David Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning. — David O. Selznick

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed. — David O. Selznick

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him. — Karina Longworth

At this rate, I'll live forever. — David O. Selznick

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting. — Karina Longworth

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule. — David O. Selznick

There are only two classes - first class and no class. — David O. Selznick

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

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

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

Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn't ask again. Right afterward she'd put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called "Space Oddity," about an astronaut named Major Tom who gets lost in space. She used to listen to the song over and over again. With her eyes closed, she'd place the palm of her hand against the fabric of the speaker, so she could feel it vibrate against her skin. — Brian Selznick

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star. — Karina Longworth

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble. — David O. Selznick

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me. — David O. Selznick

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

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail. — David O. Selznick

During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name. — Ginger Rogers

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. — David O. Selznick

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

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

Thank God for your mother. — David O. Selznick

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail. — David O. Selznick

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy. — David O. Selznick

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more. — David O. Selznick

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day. — David O. Selznick

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

There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class. — David O. Selznick

I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I run on, say to 'David O. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha' though I don't use names like David O. Selznick, just people I know because when I say the words 'equally a coming Buddha' I want to be thinking of their eyes, like you take Morley, his blue eyes behind those glasses, when you think 'equally a coming Buddha' you think of those eyes and you really do suddenly see the true secret serenity and the truth of his coming Buddhahood. Then you think of your enemy's eyes. — Jack Kerouac