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…

- Robert Towne

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 mov…

- Robert Towne

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 for…

- Robert Towne

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

- Robert Towne

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 an…

- Robert Towne

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…

- Robert Towne

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

- Robert Towne

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 i…

- 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…

- Robert Towne