Quotes by Joseph Mankiewicz

• All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
• 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.
• I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
• The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
• There's nothing as real as money.