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Nobody knows anything
The screenwriter William Goldman is often credited for the most famous dictum about Hollywood.
“Nobody knows anything,” Goldman wrote in “Adventures in the Screen Trade” a couple of decades ago.
“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.”
One of the highest-grossing movies in history, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” was offered to every studio in Hollywood, Goldman writes, and every one of them turned it down except Paramount.
“Why did Paramount say yes? Be-cause nobody knows anything. And why did all the other studios say no? Because nobody knows anything. And why did Universal, the mightiest studio of all, pass on Star Wars? . . . Because nobody, no-body—not now, not ever—knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn’t going to work at the box office.”
Writers, even the most famous, got rejected hundred of times and for the same manuscript, later to become a best-seller.
If you enjoy your writing, write. If a reader gives you a 5-star, write. If another slams you with a one-star, WRITE.
Nobody knows anything.
“Nobody knows anything,” Goldman wrote in “Adventures in the Screen Trade” a couple of decades ago.
“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.”
One of the highest-grossing movies in history, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” was offered to every studio in Hollywood, Goldman writes, and every one of them turned it down except Paramount.
“Why did Paramount say yes? Be-cause nobody knows anything. And why did all the other studios say no? Because nobody knows anything. And why did Universal, the mightiest studio of all, pass on Star Wars? . . . Because nobody, no-body—not now, not ever—knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn’t going to work at the box office.”
Writers, even the most famous, got rejected hundred of times and for the same manuscript, later to become a best-seller.
If you enjoy your writing, write. If a reader gives you a 5-star, write. If another slams you with a one-star, WRITE.
Nobody knows anything.
