Robert Ben Garant Quotes

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.