This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbli...
DAVID O. SELZNICK There are only two classes - first class and no class.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I ge...
DAVID O. SELZNICK I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
DAVID O. SELZNICK If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
DAVID O. SELZNICK The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
DAVID O. SELZNICK The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its i...
DAVID O. SELZNICK 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 Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
DAVID O. SELZNICK At this rate, I'll live forever.
DAVID O. SELZNICK You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
DAVID O. SELZNICK If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Thank God for your mother.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
DAVID O. SELZNICK She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
DAVID O. SELZNICK It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
DAVID SELZNICK As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to ...
BRIAN SELZNICK What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the...
BRIAN SELZNICK I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabre...
BRIAN SELZNICK I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more natural...
BRIAN SELZNICK Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I...
BRIAN SELZNICK Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whate...
BRIAN SELZNICK Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffin...
BRIAN SELZNICK A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't...
BRIAN SELZNICK Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Tal vez sea esa la razón de que las máquinas rotas resulten tan tristes: ya no pueden cumplir con ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como… como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK «Si alguna vez te has preguntado de dónde vienen los sueños que tienes por la noche, mira a tu al...
BRIAN SELZNICK Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one ey...
BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como... como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering pi...
BRIAN SELZNICK Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason? … They are built to make you laugh...
BRIAN SELZNICK Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free...
BRIAN SELZNICK How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.
BRIAN SELZNICK Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.
BRIAN SELZNICK It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.
BRIAN SELZNICK The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to...
BRIAN SELZNICK She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
BRIAN SELZNICK In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's f...
BRIAN SELZNICK Sometimes I come up here at night...just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is on...
BRIAN SELZNICK I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at pe...
BRIAN SELZNICK Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea...
BRIAN SELZNICK If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around....
BRIAN SELZNICK Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffin...
BRIAN SELZNICK Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.
BRIAN SELZNICK As I look out at you all gathered here I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in to...
BRIAN SELZNICK What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
DAVID O. MCKAY Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
DAVID O. MCKAY The secret of getting things done is to act!
BENJAMIN O. DAVID The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
DAVID O. MCKAY Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
DAVID O. MCKAY As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God...
DAVID O. MCKAY The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatre...
DAVID O. MCKAY I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they&...
DAVID O. RUSSELL That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thin...
DAVID O. RUSSELL It is better to be trusted than to be loved.
DAVID O. MACKAY Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
DAVID O. MCKAY Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar...
DAVID O. SACKS One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear t...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
DAVID O. RUSSELL I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm dr...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Let us realize that:the privilege to work is a gift,the power to work is a blessing,the love of work...
DAVID O. MCKAY True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literatu...
DAVID O. MCKAY Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
DAVID O. MCKAY The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
DAVID O. MCKAY I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in so...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...
DAVID O. MCKAY Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even...
DAVID O. MCKAY Let my assure you, Brethren, that some day you will have a personal Priesthood interview with the Sa...
DAVID O. MCKAY I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to...
DAVID O. RUSSELL The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get thr...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
DAVID O. MCKAY Life is not a funfair, life is a warfare
DAVID O. OYEDEPO If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin...
DAVID O. SACKS There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of ...
DAVID O. SACKS Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokeniz...
DAVID O. SACKS After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling Pa...
DAVID O. SACKS I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I ...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
DAVID O. RUSSELL 'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, a...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most d...
DAVID O. RUSSELL There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've...
DAVID O. RUSSELL When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes f...
DAVID O. RUSSELL You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war w...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fight...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing ...
DAVID O. RUSSELL What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other....
DAVID O. RUSSELL That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is y...
DAVID O. RUSSELL I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, &...
DAVID O. RUSSELL The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can g...
DAVID O. RUSSELL There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially m...
DAVID O. MCKAY Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they fo...
DAVID O. MCKAY What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
DAVID O. MCKAY Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of w...
DAVID O. MCKAY Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the soul...
DAVID O. MCKAY The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
DAVID O. MCKAY I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
IRENE MAYER SELZNICK There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY You have to open up on stage.
KAREN O I was a complete outsider in high school.
KAREN O My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of k...
KAREN O Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
KAREN O Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
KAREN O Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so ...
KAREN O I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
KAREN O I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
KAREN O Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro...
KAREN O I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
KAREN O Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when...
KAREN O I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and...
KAREN O I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ...
KAREN O Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
KAREN O I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
KAREN O For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
KAREN O I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of so...
KAREN O I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
KAREN O By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take...
O. HENRY When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched i...
STEVE-O Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 It is not necessary to maintain a conversati...
O. HALLESBY Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of...
O. HENRY What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o...
STEVE-O I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
STEVE-O The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of goo...
STEVE-O I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don'...
STEVE-O No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
STEVE-O Take it from me - he's got the goods.
O. HENRY If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, or...
STEVE-O Live not in the depressive past, nor the anxious future, but NOW.
ANNA O I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I&...
STEVE-O I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have...
STEVE-O When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my...
STEVE-O Nowadays Love Is A I Want Not I Need
EZEKIEL O You can't taste victory until you've tasted defeat
EZEKIEL O Don't go fixing other people's problems until you know yours is fixed
EZEKIEL O Happiness Is What We All Want, Therefore Not All Of Us Can Get It Because We Quit Easily
EZEKIEL O Don't Mind The Mind
EZEKIEL O She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed-...
O. HENRY Be The Voice They Can Follow Out Of Darkness
EZEKIEL O He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY I may not like sleep but it's always there when I need it
EZEKIEL O Don't Be Sorry When You Did Nothing
EZEKIEL O You can't keep a bird in a cage forever.
EZEKIEL O