--- title: "3 Robert Mark Kamen Quotes - Famous Screenwriter (The karate kid (1984))" description: "Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Karate Kid franchise as well as for his later collaborations with French..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-robert-mark-kamen-79804.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Robert Mark Kamen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-robert-mark-kamen-79804.jpg) # Robert Mark Kamen (1947) Screenwriter **3** quotes in **25** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Robert Mark Kamen is a screenwriter, best known for *The karate kid (1984)*. ## Quick Facts About Robert Mark Kamen Born October 9, 1947 Profession Screenwriter Notable works The karate kid (1984) ## About Robert Mark Kamen Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Karate Kid franchise as well as for his later collaborations with French filmmaker Luc Besson, which include the screenplay for The Fifth Element and the Transporter and Taken franchises. He now produces wine from his vineyards near Sonoma, California. ## Quotes by Robert Mark Kamen > [If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mark-kamen/if-you-ve-got-craft-you-got-game-if-you-got-game-you-can-write-your/) [Robert Mark Kamen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mark-kamen/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cc/robert-mark-kamen-79804_business_if-you-ve-got-craft-you-got-game-if-you_55883.png) > [Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mark-kamen/ten-years-before-matrix-ten-years-before-crouching-tiger-i-wanted-to/) [Robert Mark Kamen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mark-kamen/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/628/robert-mark-kamen-79804_action_ten-years-before-matrix-ten-years-before_1641610.png) > [Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mark-kamen/don-t-read-variety-don-t-listen-to-gossip-don-t-live-in-l-a-and-write/) [Robert Mark Kamen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mark-kamen/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/robert-mark-kamen-79804_books_don-t-read-variety-don-t-listen-to-gossi_1891105.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mark-kamen/#itemlist", "name": "Robert Mark Kamen Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. 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