Mike Nichols (director): “The parts of me
that did identity with Benjamin predominate in
what I did with the movie. By that I mean I
didn't cast Redford. Dustin has always said that
Benjamin is a walking surtboard. And that's
what he was in the book, in the original con—
ception. But I kept looking and looking tor an
actor until I Found Dustin, who is the opposite,
who's a dark, Jewish, anomalous presence,
which is how I experience myselt. So I stuck this
dark presense into Beverly Hills, and there he
felt that he was drowning in things, and that was

very much my take on that story."
THE GRADUATE (1967) '

PATRICIA ZIDPRODT,
COSTUME DESIGNER

 

Gene Saks (director): “Redford hated wearing a
blue suit, buttonrdown collar and tie all day‘ He
seemed anxious that people on set know that he
wasn't really like that character. He would wear a
black Western hat and cowboy boots around the

set when he wasn't on camera."

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (1967) -
EDITH HEAD, COSTUME DESIGNER