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> [Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/finally-colin-farrell-showed-up-on-my-doorstep-only-he-wasn-t-colin/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

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## More by Robert Towne

> [I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/i-think-los-angeles-certainly-grew-out-and-grew-up-but-i-don-t-think/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/if-you-can-find-meaning-in-the-type-of-running-you-need-todo-to-stay/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/good-dialogue-illuminates-what-people-are-not-saying/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/of-course-i-m-respectable-i-m-old-politicians-ugly-buildings-and/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/you-re-torn-between-wanting-to-fill-in-all-the-spaces-and-knowing/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/it-was-not-possible-to-film-in-california-because-all-the-areas-are/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [“Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/forget-it-jake-it-s-chinatown/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/and-i-think-one-way-or-another-it-s-evident-to-those-who-work-with-me/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/now-they-re-attracted-to-one-another-but-repelled-by-their-ethnic/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/politicians-ugly-buildings-and-whores-all-get-respectable-if-they/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/larry-grobel-senses-there-are-no-answers-in-life-only-questions-good/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/i-think-that-those-are-the-things-that-you-can-uniquely-do-with-film/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [“You must be dumber than you think I think you are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/you-must-be-dumber-than-you-think-i-think-you-are/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/the-straight-roads-are-the-roads-of-progress-the-crooked-roads-are/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

> [People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-towne/people-who-can-t-think-of-anything-else-but-whether-the-person-you/)

[Robert Towne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-towne/)

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