“When I started [my film career] there weren’t film schools. I never saw in my life— not even for a second—I never saw a screenplay until I was 33-years-old. And a lot of kids [today] are finished with their careers when they’re 33, because they’ve been to film school, they got their first movie done when they were 23 or 25, and now that they’re 33 they’re directors or whatever else. When I first hear of film schools I thought it was the stupidest f—— idea I’d ever heard of. Why would anybody—because we fell in love with movies going to the LCN theater in my little town in Illinois. You went to the movies and they were wonderful. And now movies are important, which they never were when I was a kid.”
2-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman (All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Writers Guild Foundation 2010 Interview
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