Robert Towne Quotes

• Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

  Robert Towne

  People, Dialogue

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• The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

  Robert Towne

  Progress, Genius, Thee

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• What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same.

  Robert Towne

  Math, Talking, Discipline

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• In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

  Robert Towne

  Writing, Character, Essence

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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 in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

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  Thinking, People, Ears

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

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  Thinking, Hiding Something, Stupidity

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.119, Grove Press

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• Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

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  Respect, Long, Ugly

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.80, Grove Press

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

  Robert Towne

  Water, Los Angeles, Chinatown

  "Chinatown". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Creo que Los Ángeles ha crecido y se ha hecho mayor, pero no ha madurado. Perdió el atractivo, el hambre y la belleza de su adolescencia y se convirtió en un monstruo feo y sobrealimentado de mediana edad que busca el placer sin sentido y es obsesivamente adquisitivo. Es tan materialista. Creció, pero no maduró.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, Ugly, Materialistic

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• The one thing you know when you're shooting a script - and I've been on a lot of sets - is space is in a script, and the distance between the page and the stage is so enormous that it is unbelievable how even the brightest people can misread your intent or not see it altogether. Scripts have air in them. Scripts are supposed to leave things up to interpretation, but people can misread things enormously, so sometimes it's just a matter of wanting to put on the screen what you had in mind.

  Robert Towne

  Distance, People, Mind

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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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 not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

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  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

  Robert Towne

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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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 do it.

  Robert Towne

  Kids, Scripts, Wanted

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• If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

  Robert Towne

  Running, Team, Needs

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

  Robert Towne

  Children, Censorship, Remember

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• Orgullo negro. Orgullo gay. Orgullo blanco, anglosajón protestante. Todas estas cosas, ya sabes, están polarizadas, ¿no? Los estados rojos y azules. Los cristianos, ese es el aspecto más insidioso de esto, cediendo a esta gran imagen cristiana de América. Eso es lo más aterrador de todo. Mientras que en el pasado trataban de encontrar cosas que nos unieran, para minimizar las diferencias. Mientras que hoy en día existe esta creencia en el empoderamiento y el derecho mediante la maximización de las diferencias. No estoy seguro de que eso sea saludable.

  Robert Towne

  Christian, Pride, Gay

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• 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!

  Robert Towne

  Money, Power, Ideas

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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 and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

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  Past, California, Capes

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• I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

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  Pants, Embarrassment, Caught

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

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  Business, Chinatown

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.34, Grove Press

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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.

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  Thinking, Directors, Way

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

  Robert Towne

  Dark, Thinking, Ambitious

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• Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

  Robert Towne

  Answers, Senses, Larry

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