Film Quotes by Robert Ben Garant

15 Film quotes by Robert Ben Garant

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Robert Ben Garant offers fifteen reflections that blend humor with craft, giving readers a clear sense of how he approaches pacing, dialogue, and the absurd in film.

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We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

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Most movies were always terrible.

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Not a lot of movies have their own feel.

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

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There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

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

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

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There's a studio formula of making a movie that Betty White fans and Ice Cube fans are going to love, so it's…

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For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at…

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

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Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

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'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with…

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You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is…

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What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into…

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You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is…

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Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

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

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I write manically.

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Most movies were always terrible.

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

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If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

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

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For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

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There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy…

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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…

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You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

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'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.

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You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

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