Quotes By David O. Selznick

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

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

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

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

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

At this rate, I'll live forever.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

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

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

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

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

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

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

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

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

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

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

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.

Thank God for your mother.