Adventures in the Screen Trade

by William Goldman

movies are always a search for past magic

The movie didn’t cost enough money to be that good

I don’t want to be the man who learns—I want to be the man who knows

I wonder what Shakespeare would have read like if he wrote this way? “And it’s the most agonizingly beautiful dawn you’ve ever seen and the ghost appears and it’s the most staggering-fucking-looking ghost anybody ever saw.”