Zanuck Quotes

(on Darryl F. Zanuck) Zanuck never did anything but be nice to me. Oh yeah, maybe he chased Alice Faye around, but a lot of people chased Alice Faye around.

(Darryl F. Zanuck on The Grapes of Wrath (1940)) It`s a good picture. It`s meaty and down to earth. But I think it needs a happier ending.

(on Darryl F. Zanuck) Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napolean, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, and he was not a good writer.

I would have loved to have been a `40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career. Now you don`t get a call from Darryl Zanuck saying, `Come do this movie on Monday.` So you have to do it on your own.