Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quote

Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.


All About Eve (1950)


Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.

Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.

Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.

Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.