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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (/ˈmæŋkəwɪts/; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950).

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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Highest, Paid, Secretary, World

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

Biting, Finished, Knuckles, Months

There's nothing as real as money.

Money, Nothing, Real

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

Critic, Essential, Essentials, Picnics, Theatre

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

Difference, Differences, Life, Scripts, Sense

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Back, Careers, Female, Funny, Moving, Way

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

Beautiful, Golf, Phones, Wears, World

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

Directed, Film, Names, Script, Scripts, Written

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

Furiously, Girl, Life, Stammered, Success, Years

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

People, Wish, Know Me, Know, Tell

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.

Jobs, Writing, Definitions, Louis, Walk, Produce

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

Collapse, Ends, Peak, Picture, Talking

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Dead, Hundred, Playwrights, Three, Years

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

Money, Class, Salary, Income, Look

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant. . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.

Give, Giving, People, Real, Simply, Speech