Robert Benton
Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Bentonis an American screenwriter and film director. He won the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Kramer vs. Kramerand won a third Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Places in the Heart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 September 1932
CountryUnited States of America
mother daughter thinking
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.
trying lasts next
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.
style wit
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.
children taken america
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.
thinking feelings awful
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.
My education was an education by movies.
perfect people enough
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.
sex law parent
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
meaningful korea years
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.
twilight color murder-mysteries
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.
writing dyslexia novel
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.
thinking laughing style
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.
art successful world
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.
art photographer
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.