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"All of a sudden, with a cut of the camera, the rocket goes right into the eye of the man on the moon," Selznick says. "He's got the rocket in his eye, and white goo is kind of coming down where the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Brian Selznick has a knack for writing whimsical, nostalgic stories starring precocious children.

'Every film's a test," says veteran director Martin Scorsese, whose new movie, "Hugo" -- based on the fantastical Brian Selznick novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" -- was something like a doctoral ...

It’s easy to understand why Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie of author Brian Selznick’s best-selling 2007 children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” Scorsese is not only a master moviemaker ...

“I want you to picture yourself sitting in the darkness, like the beginning of a movie.” With an intricately woven story of both pictures and words, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” draws you into an ...

Author of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret" tells what inspired him, if there will be a movie and what's behind those hidden initials. Did you want to know what inspired Brian Selznick to write “The ...

In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, author and illustrator Brian Selznick uses a striking combination of text and drawings to tell the story of Hugo,... The Intricate, Cinematic World of 'Hugo Cabret' ...