"I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them."

“I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.”

“I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!”

“The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.”

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“Belly buttons are cool!”

“Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*”

“I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.”

“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”

“I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.”

Source : Martin Ritt, Gabriel Miller (2003). “Martin Ritt: Interviews”, p.204, Univ. Press of Mississippi