Robert Ben Garant Quotes

#1. 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.

Robert Ben Garant

#2. 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

#3. If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

Robert Ben Garant

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

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

Robert Ben Garant

#6. 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

#7. When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

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#8. Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

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#9. I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Robert Ben Garant