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… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody looks at… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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