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Robert Ben Garant
Robert Ben Garant
American Producer
Born: Sep 14, 1970
About Good Movies People Think You
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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. Robert Ben Garant
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In cop shows, the police don't get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all 'Reno' was, and I think that's all cops do 90 percent of their day. Robert Ben Garant
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'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element. Robert Ben Garant
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I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere. Robert Ben Garant
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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
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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
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Sometimes, when people don't like our movies, we're like, 'I'm with you.' Robert Ben Garant
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Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be. Robert Ben Garant
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I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.' Robert Ben Garant
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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. Robert Ben Garant
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Most movies were always terrible. Robert Ben Garant
Most Terrible Always Were Movies
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. Robert Ben Garant
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If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed. Robert Ben Garant
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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. Robert Ben Garant
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Not a lot of movies have their own feel. Robert Ben Garant
Own Feel Lot Movies
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
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I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million. Robert Ben Garant
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We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it. Robert Ben Garant
Buy People Writing Thinking About Without Movies
Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country. Robert Ben Garant
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'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that's more awkward. Robert Ben Garant
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There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke. Robert Ben Garant
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When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script. Robert Ben Garant
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What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office, and they say, 'Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?' Robert Ben Garant
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'The State' had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don't know how we would have scripted 'Reno.' Robert Ben Garant
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There's a studio formula of making a movie that Betty White fans and Ice Cube fans are going to love, so it's a really broad brush. Robert Ben Garant
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You'll be in the checkout line at the supermarket, and there will be one of our movies in between the Certs and 'The National Enquirer.' That's where some of ours end up. Robert Ben Garant
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