Quotes by Robert Towne

Robert Towne

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 very anxious to get the movie made.

Directors

Thinking

Way

Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they’re polarized, aren’t they? The red and blue states. Christians, that’s the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That’s the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they’re trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there’s this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I’m not so sure that that’s healthy.

Christian

Gay

Pride

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

Ambitious

Dark

Thinking

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 don’t remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Censorship

Children

Remember

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

Chinatown

Los Angeles

Water

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 do it.

Kids

Scripts

Wanted

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

Dialogue

People

How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you’re worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can’t already afford? The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

Ideas

Money

Power

I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don’t think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence and went straight to a middle-aged ugly, overfed monster seeking mindless pleasure and being obsessively acquisitive. It’s so materialistic. It grew up, but it didn’t mature.

Materialistic

Thinking

Ugly

I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

Business

Chinatown

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Christian

Dark

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Directors

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Distance

Ears

Embarrassment

Essence

Gay

Genius

Hiding Something

Ideas

Kids

Larry

Long

Los Angeles

Love Is

Materialistic

Math

Mind

Money

Needs

Pants

Past

People

Power

Pride

Progress

Remember

Respect

Running

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Stupidity

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Quotes by Robert Towne

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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 very anxious to get the movie made.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

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 don’t remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

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 do it.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you’re worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can’t already afford? The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

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