Exploring Grand Central’s Secret’s, With the Author of Hugo Cabret | Transportation Nation

When Brian O. Selznick wrote “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a graphic novel about an orphan in 1930′s Paris, he imagined the secret spaces of the Gare Montparnasse, in Paris. For inspiration, he visited Grand Central Terminal, and drew his interiors in pictures that were three inches by five inches. But the scenes in the book — hidden tunnels, secret rooms, the giant clock tower — were all drawn from Selznick’s imagination, and then turned into the movie “Hugo,” by Martin Scorcese.