Daily Inspiration Quote by Margot Kidder

Kidder’s line lands like a cigarette burn on the glossy myth of Hollywood fun. “It was obvious” isn’t just emphasis; it’s an accusation. She’s telling you the mask slipped so completely that even the usual industry deniability couldn’t hold. Then she chooses “game” - a word that sounds playful until you hear its darker double meaning: manipulation with rules everyone’s supposed to pretend are natural. On a film set, “the game” often means power moves dressed up as professionalism: who gets protected, who gets ignored, whose discomfort is reframed as temperament.

The context matters: The Amityville set evokes horror as a brand, a machine built to manufacture dread. Kidder flips that inside out. The fear isn’t only in the script; it’s in the social choreography behind the camera. By keeping the sentence vague, she makes the charge broader and harder to litigate. No names, no specific incident - just a blunt claim that the dynamics were legible. That vagueness is strategic, especially for an actress from an era when speaking too plainly could mean being labeled “difficult” and quietly unemployable.

What makes the quote work is how little it needs. It invites the audience to supply the missing details because we already know the genre: sets as workplaces where charisma can excuse cruelty, where silence is currency, where “just kidding” is often the cover story for control. Kidder doesn’t narrate the scandal; she points to the rigged table and lets the house reputation do the rest.