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.
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
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 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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. - Robert Towne
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
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
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…
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. - Robert Towne
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
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
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…
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