Glenn Ficarra Biography

Fast Facts

• Nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in 2011 in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for "I Love You Phillip Morris․"
• Nominated in for the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2010 Gotham Awards for his work on "I Love You Phillip Morris"
• Studied filmmaking and writing at New York's Pratt Institute in the early 1990s
• Quote: "[John and I] have a lot of affection for our characters and we just have a hard time to write characters we have contempt for, even our villains․ If we have a villain, we want him to have a human frailty․"
• Quote: "[John and I] went to film school, so we weren't always writers that became directors․ I think there is a lot of that in comedy; writers who became directors who are not necessarily filmmakers․ We set out to be filmmakers․"
• Quote: "All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important․ The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you․"
• Often teams with writing partner John Requa whom he met in college
• Started out writing for animated programs including Nickelodeon's "The Angry Beavers" before transitioning to film as both a writer, producer and director