"One of the reasons for going back into……" — Robert Towne

"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."

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19 Quotes by Robert Towne

Robert Towne has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed…
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…
And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a…
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had…
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…
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere…
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape…
Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid…
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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