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13 quotes by Robert Towne

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. His most notable work was his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974).
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Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to... →

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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... →

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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 to go from there. I... →

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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 help to repair... →

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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 to it. And the obsessive interest... →

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It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read... →

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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 you going... →

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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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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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You're dumber than you think I think you are.

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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 director, a friend, as somebody's there that's... →

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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... →

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It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past... →

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