"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."

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Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.”
“The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.”
“Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.”
“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
“The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.”
“Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.”
“The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.”
“If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.”

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