I need a day or two to get some things done. A lot of folks think the wisest thing to ever be said or written by the late screenwriter William Goldman was his line about the movie business — "Nobody Knows Anything." I don't think that's true and I don't think he really meant that the way some people quote it.
I think he meant something more like, "Everyone who predicts what will be a hit (or at least a good movie) and what won't be is playing hunches which might well be wrong." But "Nobody Knows Anything" is kinda snappy.
No, I think the wisest thing he ever said about The Business was something he said many times in different ways. It was about how your scripts were never going to be as perfect as you want them to be or the people you work with and for want them to be…but it was possible to get them in on time. So in that spirit, I'm trying to get something in on time and that's why I won't be posting much on this blog for a day or three. Thank you for your patronage anyway.