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Nov 16, 2018 · William Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer of screenplays for “All the President’s Men” and “ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ” who died on Friday, coined the best line in the history of...
“Nobody knows anything..... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.” ― William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
And you know you’re not that good. You realize you’re not going to be Chekhov, you’re not going to be Cervantes, you’re not going to be Irwin Shaw, who is the crucial figure for me. And so you go into your pit alone, hoping, trying to fake yourself out that this time you will be wonderful.
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Nov 16, 2018 · He had gravitas and approachability. His axiom, “Nobody knows anything,” is one of the most oft-repeated phrases in the movie business, a linguistic cheat for “We fucked this up.”
- Sean Fennessey
Apr 6, 2000 · He’s the man who said about Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.” Actually, Goldman, who wrote the screenplays for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men”–both of...
He published a memoir about his professional life in Hollywood, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), which summed up the entertainment industry in the opening sentence of the book, "Nobody knows anything."
Nov 16, 2018 · In “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” Mr. Goldman made headlines in his famously thin-skinned industry when he declared, “Nobody knows anything,” a succinct assessment of the movie business...
