Eric Roth is an American screenwriter.
Attended UCSB and Columbia as an undergraduate, and UCLA as a graduate student.
Father of Vanessa Roth.
Attended UCLA film school with singer Jim Morrison (The Doors), who became a good friend.
Was awarded the Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Screenwriters Showcase on June 9, 2008.
Wife Debra is a lawyer and bioethicist and Associate Professor at the UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics.
Roth was one of several victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme after having his entire retirement fund wiped out.
As of 2017, Eric Roth has written five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award: Forrest Gump , The Insider , Munich , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close . "Forrest Gump" won Best Picture and earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
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.
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
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. .
