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Nov 16, 2018 · “Nobody knows anything.” To illustrate his point, Goldman liked to tell a story about “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a script he wrote on spec, released in late 1969.
Nobody Knows Anything!: Directed by William Tannen. With Linda Black, Alan Blumenfeld, Carmine Caridi, Margaret Cho. In this comedy about Hollywood, Sarah thinks making a movie is easy.
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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."
The line that will be on my tombstone is “Nobody knows anything.” That caught on out there [in Los Angeles]. And it’s true. It’s not just that people don’t know what’s going to work commercially. The fact is, you don’t know what’s going to work in a movie. You don’t know.
“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
Apr 6, 2000 · But what is Goldman, who was born in Highland Park (and had a miserable childhood — a writer’s best friend), most famous for? He’s the man who said about Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.”
Overview. An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success. When the guidance of her helpful has-been uncle fails to pave the way, Sarah Wilder must seek the advice of such Hollywood heavies as Mike Meyers, Ben Stiller, and Fred Willard -- only to ...
