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 you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process? — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
