33 Quotes by Robert Benton

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 is a way of talking about yourself.

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.

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.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

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

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 lasts forever and taste doesn't.