Robert Ben Garant Quotes

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it.

I never made a good movie.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward to it, but I just couldn't handle it, man. Ten minutes in, and I was gone. I didn't have to walk out of 'Transformers 2' because I didn't go. I loved the first 'Transformers.' I loved it, but I heard too many of my friends walked out of the second one.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

How can you judge one film against another?

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.