You’ll be in the checkout line at the supermarket, and there will be one of our movies in between the Certs and ‘The National Enquirer.’ That’s where some of ours end up. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
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. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
The ‘Reno’ movie is very solid. ‘Balls of Fury’ I’m pretty disappointed in – I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you’re good, they bring you into their office, and they say, ‘Boy, that spec was really good – we’ll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?’ Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it’s a business. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
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. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show. Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
Writing a screenplay’s not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, ‘I saw ‘Night at the Museum,’ and the thing about him and his kid brought me and my kid together.’ Something like that… it’s like, ‘Oh, right. That’s why we’re doing it.’ Robert Ben Garant Read Quote
