“I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.” Quote by Thomas Lennon
“For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.” CareProudAwards Author:Michael Cerveris
“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.” PeopleGuyComedyScriptsPassingPassingsReputationScreenwritersSketch Comedy Author:Thomas Lennon
“I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!” PeopleWantNeedsPlayActorsAsksAnswersRolesTheaterVery GoodListsAsk MeSomeday Author:Michael Cerveris
“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?".” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsHeartMadeSoulHappensGamesBoysMillionsRightsHappenedHeardOfficeSellsBoardsMonopolyHeart And SoulBoard GamesSpecs Author:Robert Ben Garant
“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.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingLooksSoulAbleFiguresTablesHoundsMiley Author:Robert Ben Garant
“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.” IfsWorldWantI CanStatesMovingNationsNumbersNuclearErasAcknowledgeZeroSovereignRationalize Author:George Lee Butler
“I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.” IfsWritingDoneReaderInternetComputerNewspapersWebsiteWork Done Author:Stephen Sondheim
“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.” ThinkingWritingMadeStuffLeap Author:Robert Ben Garant
“I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.” KnowsWayWritingLittlesSometimesNovelLike YouStudiosSalieri Author:Thomas Lennon
“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .” PeopleWarCountryProcessRealizingColdPeriodsCostOrganizationNuclearUsaCapabilityCold War Author:George Lee Butler