Robert Towne Quotes

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• 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 anything…
• Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive…
• 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 somebody's…
• But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I…
• But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
• Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying
• 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…
• I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a…
• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to…
• 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…
• I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily…
• It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that…
• 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 own…
• Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
• One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
• You're dumber than you think I think you are.
• 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…
• I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

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