{"id":15336,"date":"2013-07-01T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15336"},"modified":"2013-07-01T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:03:40","slug":"william-goldman-writers-guild-foundation-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/07\/01\/william-goldman-writers-guild-foundation-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"William Goldman WGF Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/William-Goldman-Interview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15337\" alt=\"William Goldman Interview\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/William-Goldman-Interview.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In 2010, screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Goldman\">William Goldman<\/a> sat down with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgfoundation.org\/\">Writers Guild Foundation<\/a> for a lengthy chat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Famous for writing such films as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064115\/\">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/a> (1969), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074860\/\">Marathon Man<\/a> (1976), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074119\/\">All the President&#8217;s Men<\/a> (1976) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093779\">The Princess Bride<\/a> (1987).<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also known for coining the phrase &#8216;nobody knows anything&#8217; and his two books about his experiences in Hollywood, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/19OZtF1\">Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/a>\u00a0(1982) and <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/13m0RyZ\">Which Lie Did I Tell?<\/a> (2000), are essential reading.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst other things, he talks about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His first screenplay<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The changes in the business since the 1960s<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His background and early life<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Military service<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Getting his first novel was published<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His early education in movies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cliff_Robertson\">Cliff Robertson<\/a> to his career<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Differences between the Hollywood of yesteryear and today<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His time at Princeton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Great Waldo Pepper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Why he never wanted to direct<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The one film he regrets not writing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Marathon Man (1976)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Agents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His time in the &#8216;wilderness&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The pirate movie he wrote that never got made<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Working with Clint Eastwood<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch the full 93 minute interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCs4gdt-mPY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&gt; Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/19OZtF1\">Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/13m0RyZ\">Which Lie Did I Tell?<\/a>\u00a0at Amazon UK<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001279\/\">William Goldman<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgfoundation.org\/\">Writers Guild Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, screenwriter William Goldman sat down with the Writers Guild Foundation for a lengthy chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2581,944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}