Irving Ravetch

“We've always chosen our material on the basis of whether it was something we felt strongly about.”

“We have a certain taste for material that deals with a social situation but is not a tract.”

“We were young and foolish and didn't know you weren't supposed to do that. We just liked the story.”

“We were warned that the American public would not accept a picture that was so downbeat.”

“One of us has an idea and says, 'What do you think of this?' And the other says, 'I don't think much of it.' And we start to argue, and then we have a script.”

“Our main concern is to tell a good story about interesting people.”