Robert Benton Quotes

#1. Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'

Wentworth Miller

#2. When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

Arne Glimcher

#3. Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

John Ruskin

#4. Fear him, whom you hate.

Umar

#5. 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 who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

Robert Benton

#6. Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

Barry Ritholtz

#7. To show that you truly care, you listen.

Adora Svitak

#8. The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Marcia Muller

#9. Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

Robert Benton

#10. The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Frank Herbert

#11. Caution should always be the prime form of interaction or approach with any unknown quantity.

Steven Redhead

#12. 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.

Robert Benton

#13. My education was an education by movies.

Robert Benton

#14. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I

Robert Nathan

#15. 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.

Robert Benton

#16. If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Lee Ritenour

#17. All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

John Fowles

#18. A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Chamfort

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

Robert Benton

#20. 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.

Robert Benton

#21. It takes enough determination to overcome any adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. capita in the Republic of Korea was 121.8%. For Taiwan, that figure was 88.0%. In Hong Kong, real GDP growth per capita in that period leaped 64.2%, while in Singapore it was 77.5%. Growth in real earnings has been even more impressive,

Callum Henderson

#23. 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.

Robert Benton

#24. The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.

Robin Bertram