Robert Benton Quotes

• 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, Want, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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, Murder Mysteries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My education was an education by movies.

  Robert Benton

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes other people have better ideas.

  Robert Benton

  Ideas, People, Sometimes

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• 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

  Hija, Madre, Pensamiento

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Style is a way of talking about yourself.

  Robert Benton

  Talking, Style, Way

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

  Robert Benton

  School, High School, Magazines

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• 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

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• 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

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• The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

  Robert Benton

  Art, Directors, Photographer

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• 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

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• It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

  Robert Benton

  Interesante

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• 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

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• 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.

  Robert Benton

  New York, People, Interesting

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• Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

  Robert Benton

  Book, Narrative, Different

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