I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
About Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wivesand All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.
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I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
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.
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
There’s nothing as real as money.
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)