David O. Selznick

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

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

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

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.