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
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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.
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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.
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Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
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I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
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Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.