Chloë Grace Moretz: Isabelle

Hugo

Isabelle

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]

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

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.

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 Méliès'name]
Isabelle: [amazed] Georges Méliès. 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.

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.

Hugo Cabret: My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a rocket *fly* - into the eye of the man in the moon. - It went straight in.
Isabelle: Really?
Hugo Cabret: He said it was like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day. The movies were our special place.

Isabelle: Christina Rossetti's her name, after the poetess. Would you like me to recite? "My heart is like a singing bird, Whose nest is in a water'd shoot, My heart is like an apple tree, Whose boughs are bent with thick-set..."

Isabelle: There's nothing wrong with crying. Sydney Carton cries. And Heathcliff, too. In books, they're crying all the time.

Isabelle: [reading from "The Invention of Dreams"] "The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that - films had the power - to capture dreams."

Isabelle: Professor Tabard, would you - perhaps - like to meet him?
Rene Tabard: Oh - but you see, I have met him. My brother worked as a carpenter building sets for Méliès. One day he took me to visit the studio. It was like - something out of a dream. The whole building was made of glass. In reality, this was to let in all the sunlight necessary for filming, but to my eyes, it was nothing short of - an enchanted castle. A palace made of glass.

Isabelle: You were an actress, a real cinema actress! It's impossibly romantic, Mama.
Mama Jeanne: It wasn't like that. We weren't movie stars like they have today. But we did have fun.

Isabelle: Who are you?
Hugo Cabret: Your grandfather stole my notebook. I've got to get it back before he burns it.
Isabelle: Papa Georges isn't my grandfather. And he isn't a thief. You're the thief. You're nothing but a - a reprobate.

Isabelle: Come on.
Hugo Cabret: Where are we going?
Isabelle: Only to the most wonderful place on earth. It's Neverland and Oz and Treasure Island all wrapped into one.

Hugo Cabret: Robin Hood. I saw this movie. With Douglas Fairbanks. Did you see that?
Isabelle: I've never seen a movie.