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
photography war photograph
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.
children going-away photograph
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.
art photographer
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
mistake people wonderful
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.
school high-school
Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.
quitting moments
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.
interesting people wonderful
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.
style about-yourself
Style is a way of talking about yourself.
style
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.
perfect important realizing
Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.
people sometimes
Sometimes other people have better ideas.
interesting
It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.
prettiness
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.
forever style
Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.