Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
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Obviously, we're very happy to have Tony with us for the foreseeable future, ... Along with Home Depot, he's been an important part of our organization for a number of years, and we're thankful that's going to continue.
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
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Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.
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Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
