Quotes by David Selznick

• You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
• Thank God for your mother.
• 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.
• The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
• There are only two classes - first class and no class.
• They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
• This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
• Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
• 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.
• Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
• If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
• I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
• I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
• I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
• 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.
• At this rate, I'll live forever.
• If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
• It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.