Robert Ben Garant Quotes

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Robert Ben Garant

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 14, 1970

L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.

Robert Ben Garant

'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.

Robert Ben Garant

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

Robert Ben Garant

I write manically.

Robert Ben Garant

We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!

Robert Ben Garant

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

Robert Ben Garant

Sometimes, when people don't like our movies, we're like, 'I'm with you.'

Robert Ben Garant

Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.

Robert Ben Garant

We had a great run on 'Reno' - 87 episodes and a movie. Not too shabby.

Robert Ben Garant

Movies are very, very good to me; What do I need TV for?

Robert Ben Garant

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.

Robert Ben Garant

I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'

Robert Ben Garant

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

Robert Ben Garant

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

Robert Ben Garant

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

Robert Ben Garant

Most movies were always terrible.

Robert Ben Garant

When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'

Robert Ben Garant

Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.

Robert Ben Garant

I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.

Robert Ben Garant

Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.

Robert Ben Garant