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.
There's nothing as real as money. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
There's nothing as real as money.
- 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 them again when you get… - 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 them again when you get…
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.
So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
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.
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
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