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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.