Talking Picture Quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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• 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…
• There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back…
• 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…
• 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.
• I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this…

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