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.
Played by Asa Butterfield 
Hugo (2011) · 18 quotes
Hugo (2011) · 18 quotes
Most-quoted character in Hugo (2011): in 11 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Isabelle (6)
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.
More lines from Hugo Cabret
3 quotes Hugo Cabret Hugo Cabret Listen to me! Please! Please! Listen to me! You don't understand! You have to let me go! I don't understand, why my father died! Why I'm alone!
Hugo Cabret I am Hugo!
Scenes with Hugo Cabret
7 scenes
We could get into trouble!
Hugo That's how you know it's an adventure.
Hugo [angry and disappointed that the automaton hasn't written anything of sense]
What an idiot! Thinking I could fix it!
Hugo...
Hugo [Hugo loses his composure and desperately begins smashing various items in the room.]
It's broken! It's always been broken! [sits in chair, covers his face and begins to cry]
Hugo, it doesn't have to be like this. You can fix it.
Hugo [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.]
Hugo, Hugo look! It... it's not done!
Hugo [The two watch as the automaton begins to draw a picture.] [voice breaking]
It's not writing! It... it's drawing!
Hugo [They see it is a scene from the movie "A Trip to the Moon."]
That's the movie my father saw! [the automaton signs Georges Méliès' name]
[amazed]
Georges Méliès. That's Papa Georges name. Why would your father's machine sign Papa Georges' name?
Hugo I don't know. [picks up drawing and looks at robot] Thank you. [turns to Isabelle] It was a message from my father. And now I have to figure it out.
[after Hugo and Isabelle find a wooden box in a hidden cabinet in Méliès house, the box gets accidently broken exploding a mass of paper with sketches including a similar one of the moon]
Back from the dead.
Mama Jeanne/Jeanne d'Alcy
[Méliès picks up the some of the drawings and starts to rip them in anger]
Stop it, Georges! Stop it! This is your work!
MY WORK?! What am I? Nothing but a penniless merchant, a broken windup toy! [looking at Hugo] I trusted you. This is how you thank me. You're cruel. Cruel.
Hugo Okay.
[as she says goodbye to Hugo and turns to leave to return to the station]
Thank you... for the movie today. It... It was a gift.
Who are you?
Hugo Your grandfather stole my notebook. I've got to get it back before he burns it.
Papa Georges isn't my grandfather. And he isn't a thief. You're the thief. You're nothing but a - a reprobate.
Come on.
Hugo Where are we going?
Only to the most wonderful place on earth. It's Neverland and Oz and Treasure Island all wrapped into one.
Hugo 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.
Really?
Hugo He said it was like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day. The movies were our special place.
Hugo I've got to go!
Station Inspector You'll go nowhere until your parents are found.
Hugo 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!
