"Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying" — Robert Towne
"Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying"
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Robert Towne
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19 Quotes by Robert Towne
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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…
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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
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If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn…
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And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a…
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But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had…
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But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
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What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by…
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I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere…
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It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape…
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Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid…
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I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's…
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It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare…
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Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have…
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted…
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And…
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common…
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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our…
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When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
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Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but…
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two…
— Truman Capote
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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between…
— George Carey
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