Robert Ben Garant

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

— Robert Ben Garant

You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want…

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually…

— Robert Ben Garant

'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.

— Robert Ben Garant

We had a great run on 'Reno' - 87 episodes and a movie. Not too shabby.

— Robert Ben Garant

Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we…

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window…

— Robert Ben Garant

When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is…

— Robert Ben Garant

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

'The State' had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don't…

— Robert Ben Garant

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,…

— Robert Ben Garant

Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I…

— Robert Ben Garant

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.

— Robert Ben Garant

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Robert Ben Garant

I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million.

— Robert Ben Garant

'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how…

— Robert Ben Garant