Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates: An Oral History Of ‘Forrest Gump’ As Robert Zemeckis’s American Fantasia Turns 30

Moviemaking is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get. That was certainly the case for the team behind Forrest Gump . “We didn’t know if we were just drunk. [We didn’t know] if this was gonna be something ridiculous,” admits the film’s screenwriter, Eric Roth, who ultimately took home an Oscar