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Adventures in the Screen Trade

I'll answer a question that a lot of people ask me and that is, what are you reading? Well, what I'm reading right now is two books — comprise of two books. The first is, William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade. Goldman is the screenwriter behind such movies as The Princess Bride – one of my favorites of all time – and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The second book is John Muir, Wilderness Essays. So, very different, both very, very good and highly recommended. The Adventures in the Screen Trade is a little outdated with some of the contents because it's related to film and it was written in the '80s, but there are a lot of timeless principles and Goldman is just hilarious.

As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most exciting business in the world.

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