American - Novelist | August 12, 1931 -
If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.
William Goldman
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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Nobody knows anything.
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There's only three movies I've been involved with in my whole life that I really care about. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was one, and 'Princess Bride' was the second, and 'Hearts in Atlantis' is the third.
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You can never trust what you read.
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I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.
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Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he'll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for 'Hearts in Atlantis.' He liked it. Talk about relief.
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We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.
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Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.
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It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around. And this last decade, the '90s, has been a period of very low talent.
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Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.
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Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.
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