From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of All the President’s Men, The
Princess Bride, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, here is essential reading for both the aspiring screenwriter and anyone who loves going to the movies.

If you want to
know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in Misery, it’s in here. Or why Linda
Hunt’s brilliant work in Maverick didn’t make the final cut, William Goldman gives
you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how
MTV has changed movies for the worse,William Goldman, one of the most successful
screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening
and endlessly entertaining, Which Lie Did I Tell? is indispensable reading for anyone
even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.