Robert Benton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
-- Robert Benton

#Twilight #Color #Age
Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
-- Robert Benton

#Meaningful #Korea #Years
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
-- Robert Benton

#Sex #Law #Parent
My education was an education by movies.
-- Robert Benton
I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
-- Robert Benton

#Thinking #Feelings #Awful
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
-- Robert Benton

#Children #Taken #America
My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
-- Robert Benton

#Trying #Lasts #Next
All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.
-- Robert Benton

#Mother #Daughter #Thinking
Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.
-- Robert Benton

#Style #Ephemeral #Knows
Sometimes other people have better ideas.
-- Robert Benton

#Ideas #People #Sometimes
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
-- Robert Benton

#Writing #Down And #Stories
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.
-- Robert Benton

#Differences #Style #Taste
New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.
-- Robert Benton

#New York #People #Perfect
Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.
-- Robert Benton

#School #High School #Magazines
Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.
-- Robert Benton

#Jobs #New York #Quitting
People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.
-- Robert Benton

#Mistake #People #Wonderful
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
-- Robert Benton

#Art #Directors #Photographer
Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.
-- Robert Benton

#Ideas #Perfect #Important
Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.
-- Robert Benton

#Prettiness #Areas
Style is a way of talking about yourself.
-- Robert Benton

#Talking #Style #Way
It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.
-- Robert Benton

#Interesting
The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.
-- Robert Benton

#Knowing #Style #Perfume
Taste has nothing to do with style.
-- Robert Benton

#Style #Taste
Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.
-- Robert Benton

#Forever #Style #Lasts
Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.
-- Robert Benton

#Thinking #Laughing #Style

You may also like:

Arthur Penn
Director
Charles Baxter
Author
Dustin Hoffman
Actor
Estelle Parsons
Theatre actress
Gene Hackman
Actor
Jane Alexander
Film actress
Jessica Tandy
Film actress
Mario Puzo
Author
Meryl Streep
Actress
Nancy Meyers
Film director
Paul Newman
Actor
Peter Bogdanovich
Film director
Richard Curtis
Screenwriter
Richard Donner
Film director
Richard Russo
Novelist
Robert Towne
Screenwriter
Sally Field
Actress
Warren Beatty
Actor
Jaco Van Dormael
Film director