Hugo Quotes

Hugo Cabret: I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

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Hugo Cabret: Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose... it's like you're broken.

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Georges MÚliÞs: If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around... this is where they're made.

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Isabelle: We could get into trouble.
Hugo Cabret: That's how you know it's an adventure.

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Georges MÚliÞs: My life has taught me one lesson, Hugo Cabret, and not the one I thought it would. Happy endings only happen in the movies.

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Mama Jeanne: Georges, you've tried to forget the past for so long, but it has caused you nothing but unhappiness. Maybe it's time you tried to remember.

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Isabelle: [last lines; at the part Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook][voice over]
Isabelle: Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station. Why did he live in a train station, you might well ask. That's really what this book is going to be about. And about how this singular young man searched to hard to find a secret message from his Father, and how that message lead his way, all the way home. [Screen leads up to where we can see the automaton sitting at a desk, perfectly fixed. The screen fades to black]

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Georges MÚliÞs: My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, magicians... Come and dream with me.

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Isabelle: This might be an adventure, and I've never had one before - outside of books, at least.

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Isabelle: [watching A Trip to the Moon]It's in color!
Mama Jeanne: Of course it is, we tinted them. We painted them by hand, frame by frame.

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Hugo Cabret: [Angry and disappointed that the automaton hasn't written anything of sense]What an idiot! Thinking I could fix it!
Isabelle: Hugo... [Hugo looses his composure and begins smashing various items in the room]
Hugo Cabret: It's broken! It's always been broken! [Sits in chair, covers his face and begins to cry]
Isabelle: Hugo, it doesn't have to be like this. You can fix it.
Hugo Cabret: [crying]You don't... you don't understand. I thought... I thought if I could fix it... then I wouldn't be so alone. [Hugo's sobs fill the room. Suddenly, the machine begins to draw again]
Isabelle: Hugo, Hugo look! It... it's not done! [they watch as the automaton begins to draw a picture]
Hugo Cabret: [voice breaking]It's not writing! It... it's drawing! [they see it is a scene from the movie A Trip to the Moon.]
Hugo Cabret: That's the movie my Father saw! [the automaton signs Georges MÚliÞs'name]
Isabelle: [amazed]Georges MÚliÞs. That's Papa Georges name. Why would your Father's machine sign Papa Georges' name?
Hugo Cabret: I don't know. [picks up drawing and looks at robot]
Hugo Cabret: Thank you. [turns to Isabelle]
Hugo Cabret: It was a message from my Father. And now I have to figure it out.

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Lisette: Don't forget to smile.
Station Inspector: Which one? I've mastered three!

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Station Inspector: [to his dog while in the bath]If he is deceased, then who has been winding the clocks? [cut to reveal that the Inspector and the dog are in the bath together]

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Hugo Cabret: I've got to go!
Station Inspector: You'll go nowhere until your parents are found.
Hugo Cabret: I don't have any!
Station Inspector: Then it's straight to the orphanage with you! You'll learn a thing or two there. I certainly did. How to follow orders, how to keep to yourself. How to survive without a family, because you don't need one! You don't need a family! [as Gustav makes a call to the orphanage, Hugo breaks out of the cell and escapes]

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Hugo Cabret: I'm sorry, it's broken.
Georges MÚliÞs: No it's not. It worked perfectly!

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Isabelle: I think we should be very... clandestine!
Hugo Cabret: [not knowing what clandestine means]Um, okay...

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Isabelle: [wonders if she dares to ask the question]Where do you live?
Hugo Cabret: [Hugo looks at her for a minute, then turns and points to the giant clock at the train station across the bridge]There.

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Isabelle: I enjoy the poetry of Christina Georgina Rossetti. She wrote, My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit.

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