Ideas Quote 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…

— 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…

— Robert Towne

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert Towne

“Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert Towne

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— Robert Towne

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

— 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…

— Robert Towne