Robert Ben Garant Quotes

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.
'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.
'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.
I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.
I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million.
I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'
I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.
I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.
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.
I write manically.
If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'
If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, 'This is what my day is like,' it would have been really helpful.
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.
In cop shows, the police don't get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all 'Reno' was, and I think that's all cops do 90 percent of their day.
It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.
It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.
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.
Most movies were always terrible.
Movies are very, very good to me; What do I need TV for?
My college years are a blur.
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