Writer/director Robert Benton grew up in Texas where he suffered from Dyslexia, failed his only creative writing class before dropping out of college, but went on to write Bonnie and Clyde on his way to being nominated for six Oscars.
“Now it’s a side of my inability to deal with reality that I decided to be a screenwriter.”
Robert Benton
Three-time Oscar winning writer/director
(Places of the Heart, Kramer vs. Kramer, Nobody’s Fool)
*Note that I heard this interview on Jeff Goldsmith’s Creative Screenwriting podcast and because of poor audio quality I think that was the exact quote but not %100 sure.
[...] Writer/director Robert Benton grew up in Texas where he suffered from Dyslexia, failed his only creative writing class before dropping out of college, but went on to write Bonnie and Clyde on his way to being nominated for six Oscars. “Now it’s a side of my inability to deal with reality that I decided to be [...] Original Source… [...]
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