Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Big feature films are another world.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

Film in many ways is very literal.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

There's nothing more American than movies.

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.