William Goldman

'William Goldman' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Goldman, William Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Heat

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Heat

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Princess Bride

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Gospel According to Bill

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tales from the Script

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Screenwriting for Dummies

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'The Green Mile'

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen On Location with 'Gunga Din'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dreamcatcher

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Misery Loves Company

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hearts in Atlantis

  2001, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Human Face

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The General's Daughter

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fierce Creatures

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Absolute Power

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Ghost and the Darkness

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Chamber

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Da Vinci

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dolores Claiborne

  1995, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Maverick

  1994, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Malice

  1993, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Year of the Comet

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Memoirs of an Invisible Man

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Chaplin

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Misery

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Princess Bride

  1987, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Princess Bride

  1987, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Heat

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Heat

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Mr. Horn

  1979, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

  1979, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

  1979, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Magic

  1978, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Magic

  1978, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The 49th Annual Academy Awards

  1977, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
• Play in Full Screen A Bridge Too Far

  1977, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen All the President's Men

  1976, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Marathon Man

  1976, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Marathon Man

  1976, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Great Waldo Pepper

  1975, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Stepford Wives

  1975, role: writer

Goldman, William Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Toy Soldiers

  2014, role: actor , character name: Donald
• Play in Full Screen Beyond the Mat

  2013, role: actor , character name: Announcer
• Play in Full Screen How to Change the World

  2012, role: actor , character name: Boss A
• Play in Full Screen Black November

  2012, role: actor , character name: Rick Peterson
• Play in Full Screen GoldenBox

  2011, role: actor , character name: UP-Ex Henchman
• Play in Full Screen Open Door

  2011, role: actor , character name: Older Greg
• Play in Full Screen Sick Day

  2011, role: actor , character name: Boss
• Play in Full Screen Courage

  2010, role: actor , character name: Parent of school child
• Play in Full Screen Wish You Were (Here)

  2010, role: actor , character name: Ryan's Father

Famous quotes by William Goldman:

"Fact: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is, no question, the most popular thing I've ever been connected with. When I die, if the Times gives me an obit, it's going to be because of Butch."

"Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired."

"What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone."

"Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting."

"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world -- except for a nice MLT -- mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is lean and the tomato is ripe."

"I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book. . . . I wish I liked my own writing more, but like all of us, I am trapped inside my own skin."

"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. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound."

"The easiest thing to do on earth is not write"

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."

"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."

"Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian."

"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."

"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."

"The easiest thing to do on earth is not write."

"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."

"Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life."

"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."

"Nobody knows anything."

"We are men of action, lies do not become us."

"You can never trust what you read."

William Goldman