William Goldman's legend is self-evident. But because this town hates complexity, his most famous quote "nobody knows anything" is frequently cut off and misunderstood to imply some kind of absurd free-for-all approach to craft. In reality...
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The quote is: “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." Repeat: An educated one.
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And it's in that notion of education that he also talked adamantly about story, craft, and all the hard-learned lessons of his career. But he always did so with sparkling wit and keen insight. He was just the best. <3
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I never heard that quote before, context really is everything. The chopped down version sounds cynical, the full version sounds like an educator exposing the value and purpose of education in a realistic way.
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