Balls of Fury’ was my first time directing, and that’s a movie that I think parts of it are great. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
Nobody mentioned this in any of the reviews, but the reason we came up with that plot for ‘Reno 911: Miami’ is because we thought it was just the stupidest title for a movie that we could think of. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
Reno 911: Miami!’ is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews – good and mostly bad – nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that’s more awkward. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
There were guys in ‘The State’ who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn’t work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
When we first started to write our first movie, ‘You Are Going To Prison,’ we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that’d ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want to play him, your movie will not get made. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that’s going to sell and get made… I’ve never heard of anybody that happened to. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
The State’ had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don’t know how we would have scripted ‘Reno.’ Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
There’s a studio formula of making a movie that Betty White fans and Ice Cube fans are going to love, so it’s a really broad brush. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
