This Is What Makes a Killer Movie Screenplay — Eric Roth

Dune, Forest Gump, Benjamin Button. Eric Roth is the guy who wrote all those

screenplays, and he's been nominated for an Oscar seven times, and he won the Academy Award for best screenplay with

Forest Gump. I asked him things like, "How do you find a theme?" "What can you do in your writing to really move

people? What's it like to work with David Fincher and Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese? What's that like?"

Let's begin. The thing I want to start with is you said you were writing today and you're