Quotes from Robert Benton

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My education was an education by movies.