Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes:
Ocupation: Film director
Life: February 11, 1909 - February 5, 1993
Birthday: February 11
Death: February 5
famous quotes
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
source: - "Fictional character: Margo". "All About Eve", www.imdb.com. 1950. 
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Topics: Differences, Scripts, Make Sense
Topics: Real, People, Giving, Real Conversation
source: - Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”
So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
source: - Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”
source: - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
Topics: Theatre, Essentials, Picnics
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
source: - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
source: - "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.
Topics: Jobs, Writing, Definitions, Metro, Mayer
