"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
"Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one."
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Source: William Goldman (2012). “Adventures in the Screen Trade”, p.32, Hachette UK
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