Quotes About Selznick

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

One of the more interesting memos written during his two-week trial period urged Rapf to secure a print of The Battleship Potemkin, a recent film by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. "It possesses a technique relatively new to the screen," wrote Selznick, "and I therefore suggest that it might be advantageous to have the organization view it in the same way that a group of artists might view and study a Rubens or a Raphael.

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

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