William Goldman made "Nobody knows anything" the defining Hollywood maxim in Adventures in the Screen Trade.

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"William Goldman made “Nobody knows anything” the defining Hollywood maxim in Adventures in the Screen Trade."

Goldman's line is real, correctly tied to his 1983 Adventures in the Screen Trade, and means exactly what I'm borrowing it to mean - even successful insiders cannot reliably know beforehand what audiences will reward.

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Source title He Knows They Don’t Know

Source authors Robert W. Welkos

Source year 2000

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Importance mid