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 Copy Share Image
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
