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 Copy Share Image
Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
