Charles Lederer Quotes
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
Citations
Lederer, Charles. The Thing from Another World. RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
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Charles Davies Lederer was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, actress and mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. A child prodigy, he entered the University of California, Berkeley at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers.