Hugo-Movie Quotes
Compiled by Stacey Tuttle
Main Themes: Responsibility for Others, Performance/Worth/Success, Sanctity of Life, Purpose
- Uncle Claud: “Time is everything. Everything.”
- Hugo: “Why are you helping me?”
- Isabelle: “Because this may be an adventure and I’ve never had one.”
Theme: Purpose
- Isabelle, about the automatron (robot): “He looks sad.”
- Hugo: “I think he’s just waiting to work again, to do what he’s supposed to do.”
- Hugo about the automatron: “I thought if I could fix it, I wouldn’t be so alone.”
- “Films had the power to recreate dreams.”
Theme: Purpose, Worth, Sanctity of Life, Responsibility for Others
- Hugo: “Everything has a purpose, even machines. …Maybe that’s why broken machines make me so sad. Maybe it’s the same thing with people.”
- Isabelle: “Is that your purpose—fixing things? I wonder what my purpose is.”
- Hugo: “I don’t know.”
- Isabelle: “Maybe if I’d known my parents I would know.”
Theme: Purpose, Worth, Sanctity of Life
- Hugo: “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.”
- Mama Jeanne: “You’re tried to forget the past for so long; it’s brought you nothing but unhappiness. Maybe it’s time to remember.”
- Georges Mellies: “Tastes had changed, but I hadn’t changed with them …It’s all gone now, everything I ever made.”