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 I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.
I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
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 what to do all the… - 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 what to do all the…
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
There's nothing as real as money. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
There's nothing as real as money.
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, it woul… - 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 stage, it woul…
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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