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
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.
style
Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.
style
Taste has nothing to do with style.
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.