Hugo Cabret Quotes in Hugo (2011)

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.

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.

Isabelle: We could get into trouble.

Hugo Cabret: That's how you know it's an adventure.

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.

Hugo Cabret: I'm sorry, it's broken.

Georges Méliès: No it's not. It worked perfectly!

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]

Isabelle: I think we should be very... clandestine!

Hugo Cabret: [not knowing what "clandestine" means] Um, okay...

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.