Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewiczwas an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wivesand All About Eve...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 February 1909
CountryUnited States of America
land richest worse
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 richest land on earth.
moving careers ladders
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 back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
years three hundred
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
money class looks
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
world secretary highest
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
beautiful golf play
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.
theatre picnics ants
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
talking ends collapse
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
knuckles biting months
I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
jobs writing definitions
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.
names scripts film
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.