Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

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.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

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 time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.