Robert Benton Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

My education was an education by movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

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.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

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.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

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.

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.

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.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.