David O. Selznick

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The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
- David O. Selznick
Collection: Success
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I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
- David O. Selznick
Collection: Morning
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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
Collection: Christmas
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There are only two classes - first class and no class.
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She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
- David O. Selznick
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They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
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At this rate, I'll live forever.
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Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
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I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
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I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
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I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
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If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
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If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
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If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
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It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
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Thank God for your mother.
- David O. Selznick
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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.
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This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
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Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
- David O. Selznick
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Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
- David O. Selznick
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You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
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There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.
- David O. Selznick
Collection: Class
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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
Collection: Blow
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It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
- David O. Selznick
Collection: Hollywood