'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element. Robert Ben Garant More Quotes by Robert Ben Garant More Quotes From Robert Ben Garant 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 pilots people years You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it. Robert Ben Garant willing stuff writing 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 passionate huge fighting Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system. Robert Ben Garant criticism steps writing 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 states games people 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. Robert Ben Garant rooms 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 sells stuff writing 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 stuff writing thinking You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody looks at you across the table and says, "What do you think about a movie where Miley Cyrus switches souls with a basset hound?" You need to be able to sit there and figure out how to make that possibly shootable. Robert Ben Garant soul writing thinking You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. 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 heart writing thinking Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts. Robert Ben Garant agents guy dog My college years are a blur. Robert Ben Garant blur college years 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 sketch think fans change It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit. Robert Ben Garant your bad always hard 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 person day think police I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere. Robert Ben Garant realize think you people L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad. Robert Ben Garant view bad like people I write manically. Robert Ben Garant i-write write 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 joke true step how 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 new fight best people
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