“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.” ThinkingFeelingsHorribleAwfulThink Of YouDyslexicDyslexia Author:Robert Benton
“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.” PeopleChildrenCareAgeAmericaParentTakenGrewGrew UpTownsOld AgeProximity Author:Robert Benton
“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.” WantFeelsTryingLastsFilmNext Author:Robert Benton
“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.” ThinkingTogetherMotherFoundFeltWifeDaughterCaliforniaGoing Away Author:Robert Benton
“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.” PeopleEnoughBigsPerfectNew YorkWideLike MeThriveEccentric Author:Robert Benton
“Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.” PeopleHardFoundInterestingWonderfulNew YorkFilledMost InterestingWonderful Places Author:Robert Benton
“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.” MomentsJobsNew YorkQuitting Author:Robert Benton
“There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.” IfsWorldLooksKindArtCitiesSuccessfulNew YorkTheaterSizeDrivenMagazinesNew York CityPaceGalleryAmerican LifeArt WorldArt Galleries Author:Robert Benton
“Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.” SchoolHigh SchoolMagazines Author:Robert Benton
“I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.” YearsChildrenHardTwentiesPhotographMagazinesGoing AwayIllustrationDyslexic Author:Robert Benton
“The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.” ArtDirectorsPhotographerArt Director Author:Robert Benton
“After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.” MadeWarUseDifferencesAliveStreetsPhotographyCamerasPhotographStudiosEnormous Author:Robert Benton
“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.” PeopleMadeEndsMistakeWonderfulWitMade A Mistake Author:Robert Benton
“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.” ThinkingWayLaughingStyleSubstanceUnexpectedMake You Laugh Author:Robert Benton
“Style is a way of talking about yourself.” WayTalkingStyleAbout YourselfWay Of TalkingTalking About Yourself Author:Robert Benton
“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.” WalksKnowingStylePerfume Author:Robert Benton
“Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.” DifferencesStyleTasteWitWit And Humor Author:Robert Benton
“Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.” KnowsStyleEphemeral Author:Robert Benton
“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.” AreasPrettiness Author:Robert Benton
“Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.” ImportantIdeasCertainRealizingPerfectRangePerfect Things Author:Robert Benton
“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.” WritingStoriesNovelDown AndShort StoryNarrationDyslexia Author:Robert Benton
“Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.” BookDifferentInvolvedNarrativeFortyNarration Author:Robert Benton
“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.” AgeCertainMysteryColorMurderPrimariesTwilightGetting OldGetting OlderMurder MysteriesPrimary Colors Author:Robert Benton
“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.” WorldYearsWellsPlayMeaningfulDialogueKoreaApostlesSquat Author:Robert Benton
“I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.” KnowsLawSexParentVirtueParenthoodKramer Author:Robert Benton
