American - Producer | September 14, 1970 -
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.
Robert Ben Garant
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I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'
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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 a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.
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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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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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Most movies were always terrible.
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When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'
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Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.
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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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Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.
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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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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 to make a living and never get anything produced.
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