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5 Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes

Joseph L. Mankiewicz gives a sharp, candid take on film, career and the rise and fall of the talking picture.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz quotes

  1. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

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  2. I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.

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  3. I have a lot to be sad about. Not bitter in any way. But I think it can be fairly said that I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

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  4. 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.

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

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