53 Quotes by Robert Towne

Initially I was weary of it. When something is first done you're looking at all the things you wanted there that are not there.

But in the end we were guided by my memory of the place.

And as far as that goes, when he first started with it he was considering Bob Dylan for Clyde before he did it himself.

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.

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

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, 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.

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

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