Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

There's nothing as real as money.