HUGO: Monsieur Labisse gave me a book the other night. He's always doing that, sending books
to a good home. That's what he
calls it.
He's got real ... purpose.
ISABELLE: What do you mean?
HUGO: Everything has a purpose, even machines. Clocks tell the time and trains take
you places. They do what they're
meant to do. Like Monsieur
Labisse.
Maybe that's why
broken machines make me so sad.
They can't do what they're meant to do. Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken.
ISABELLE: Like Papa Georges.
HUGO: Maybe we can fix him.
ISABELLE: Is
that your purpose, fixing things?
HUGO: I don't
know. It's what my father
did.
ISABELLE: I
wonder what my purpose is.
HUGO: I don't
know.
ISABELLE
Maybe if I had known my parents ... I would know.
HUGO
Come with me.
Right after my father died, I would come up here a lot. 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.
From the movie adaptation of Brian Selznick's novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
From the movie adaptation of Brian Selznick's novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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