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
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.
book different forty
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.
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.
art photographer
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
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.
school high-school
Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.
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.
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.
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.
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.