David O. Selznick Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank God for your mother.

There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

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