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> [Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/every-screenwriter-worthy-of-the-name-has-already-directed-his-film/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

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## More by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

> [Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/every-screenwriter-worthy-of-the-name-has-already-directed-his-film/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/all-playwrights-should-be-dead-for-three-hundred-years/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [ \[Writers are\] the highest paid secretaries in the world. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/writers-are-the-highest-paid-secretaries-in-the-world/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/so-many-people-know-me-i-wish-i-did-i-wish-someone-would-tell-me/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/funny-business-a-woman-s-career-the-things-you-drop-on-the-way-up-the/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/please-don-t-look-at-me-as-if-you-had-a-source-of-income-other-than/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [There's nothing as real as money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/there-s-nothing-as-real-as-money/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [ There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you \[simply recorded\] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/there-is-no-such-thing-as-realistic-dialogue-if-you-simply-recorded/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/the-difference-between-life-and-the-movies-is-that-a-script-has-to/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/i-got-a-job-at-metro-and-went-in-to-see-louis-mayer-who-told-me-he/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/i-am-a-critic-as-essential-to-the-theatre-as-ants-to-a-picnic/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/i-ve-been-in-on-the-beginning-the-rise-peak-collapse-and-end-of-the/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [“Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/remind-me-to-tell-you-about-the-time-i-looked-into-the-heart-of-an/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/i-m-not-biting-my-fingernails-i-m-biting-my-knuckles-i-finished-the/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

> [And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-l-mankiewicz/and-kate-hepburn-god-she-s-beautiful-god-she-plays-golf-well-god-she/)

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-l-mankiewicz/)

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