Eric Roth Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
March 22, 1945

Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012).

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Eric Roth
- Life
- Need
- Forwards
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

Eric Roth

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

Eric Roth
- Change
- Courage
- Rules
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Eric Roth
- Way
- Dog
- Fates
She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Eric Roth
- Play
- Piano
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Eric Roth
- Proud
- Start
- I Hope
Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

Eric Roth
- People
- Love
- Lose
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Eric Roth
- Opportunities
- Miss

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

Eric Roth
- Home
- Funny
- Change
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Eric Roth
- Life
- Problems
You never know what's coming for you.

Eric Roth
- Know
- Coming