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Louis B. Mayer: This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory. What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. That's the real magic of the movies. And don't let anybody tell you different.
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Charles Lederer: Sorry. Somebody told me Mankiewicz was in here.
Joe Mankiewicz: He is. I'm the promising brother, Joe.
Charles Lederer: I didn't know Herman had a brother.
Joe Mankiewicz: Neither does anyone else. Let me guess. "There are millions to be made, and your only competition is idiots," stop.
Charles Lederer: How did you know?
Joe Mankiewicz: I hate to tell you, anyone who can rub three words together and make a sentence gets one.
Roslyn Cohn
Extended Reading
