Quotes by Robert Benton - Page 1

Taste has nothing to do with style.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
Style
Taste
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Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
Forever
Lasts
Style
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My education was an education by movies.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
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Sometimes other people have better ideas.
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Ideas
People
Sometimes
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Style is a way of talking about yourself.
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Style
Talking
Way
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Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.
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High School
Magazines
School
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It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.
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Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.
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Book
Different
Narrative
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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 / Screenwriter
Differences
Style
Taste
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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 / Screenwriter
Law
Parent
Sex
Virtue
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The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
Art
Directors
Photographer
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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 / Screenwriter
Ephemeral
Knows
Style
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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 / Screenwriter
Down And
Stories
Writing
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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 / Screenwriter
Ideas
Important
Perfect
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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 / Screenwriter
Areas
Prettiness
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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 / Screenwriter
Knowing
Perfume
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 / Screenwriter
New York
People
Perfect
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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 / Screenwriter
Awful
Dyslexia
Feelings
Horrible
Thinking
Anybody
Feeling
Slow
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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 / Screenwriter
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 / Screenwriter
Mistake
People
Wonderful
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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 / Screenwriter
Dialogue
Meaningful
Play
Squat
Years
Best Movies World
Apostle
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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 / Screenwriter
New York
Interesting
People
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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 / Screenwriter
Color
Getting Older
Murder Mysteries
Twilight
Certain Age
Colors
Primary
Reach
Relationships
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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 / Screenwriter
Lasts
Trying
Want
Picture
Develop
Further
Shaped
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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 / Screenwriter
Laughing
Style
Thinking
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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 / Screenwriter
America
Children
Old Age
Proximity
Taken
Age Old Age People
Close Proximity
Age Children Parents
Rarely
Throughout
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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 / Screenwriter
Daughter
California
Mother
Thinking
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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.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
Children
Illustration
Years
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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.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
War
Differences
Photography
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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.
Robert Benton / Screenwriter
Art
New York
Successful
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