Quotes.gg
Home
Tags
Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy
Imprint
Made by
Last Media
William Goldman
Popular Posts
#Tags
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
- William Goldman
#Being
#Creative
#Enough
#Full
#Life
You can never trust what you read.
- William Goldman
#Never
#Read
#Trust
#You
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.
- William Goldman
#Book
#Go
#Own
#Words
#Your
One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.
- William Goldman
#Done
#Great
#Only
#Wanted
#Work
I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.
- William Goldman
#Me
#Power
#Project
#Try
#Work
I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'
- William Goldman
#Bride
#Princess
#Story
#Time
#Two
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
- William Goldman
#Job
#Meetings
#Never
#Speak
#Start
Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.
- William Goldman
#Edgy
#Hollywood
#Place
#Pretty
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
- William Goldman
#Earth
#Easiest Thing
#Thing
#Write
But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
- William Goldman
#Earth
#Everything
#Life
#You
Nobody knows anything.
- William Goldman
#Anything
#Knows
#Nobody
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
- William Goldman
#Action
#Become
#Lies
#Men
#Us
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.
- William Goldman
#Alone
#Doing
#Room
#Way
#Words
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
- William Goldman
#Differently
#Life
#Pain
#Selling
#Something
#Who
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
- William Goldman
#Death
#Fair
#Just
#Life
#Than
Load More
Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies.
Allow cookies