Joseph Leo Mankiewicz movie quotes

“The end of Hollywood was always predictable. There were always financial crises.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“I suggested to Schulberg that he let me do a comedy about the Olympic Games, poke fun at the whole thing, and B.S. went along with it. That's how I got to write 'Million Dollar Legs', which had W.C. Fields and Ben Turpin and a whole batch of comics. Nowadays the art-film students say it was years ahead of its time — that's happened to me a lot...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“This picture was conceived in a state of emergency, shot in confusion, and wound up in a blind panic.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“The toughest three pictures I ever made.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“He may have been a difficult man, but he had a peculiar sense of what was right — and he stuck by it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On W.C. Fields

“When Jack Warner hired him to write scripts at the studio, Mizner came into Warner's office with the Los Angeles telephone book, dropped it on his desk and said, 'This might have been good for a picture — except it has too many characters in it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On Wilson Mizner

“I felt the urge to direct because I couldn't stomach what was being done with what I wrote.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz