Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
- The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
- 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 them…
- There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage,…
- There's nothing as real as money.
- Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
- I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said…
- All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
- I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
- I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.