"I think that those are the things that……" — 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 a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."
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19 Quotes by Robert Towne
Robert Towne has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying
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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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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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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
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