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