Robert Ben Garant Quotes

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.