The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t. – 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
I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
