Top 42 Towne Quotes
#1. The villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.
Catherynne M Valente
#3. Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
Robert Towne
#4. Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
#5. I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
Robert Towne
#6. The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.
Elizabeth Towne
#8. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Robert Towne
#10. I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
Robert Towne
#12. 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.
Robert Towne
#13. 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.
Robert Towne
#14. You must be dumber than you think I think you are.
Robert Towne
#15. The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.
Henry R. Towne
#16. 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
#17. All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.
Elizabeth Towne
#18. 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.
Robert Towne
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and ... he who does the best work at lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.
Henry R. Towne
#22. Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
Laura Matilda Towne
#24. I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Charles Hanson Towne
#25. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#26. 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
#27. 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.
Robert Towne
#28. Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.
Robert Towne
#29. I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.
Robert Towne
#30. Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying
Robert Towne
#31. I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.
Robert Towne
#32. One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
Robert Towne
#33. Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.
Katharine Towne
#34. To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
Elizabeth Towne
#35. It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
Robert Towne
#36. 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
#37. Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.
Elizabeth Towne
#38. But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
Robert Towne
#39. Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
Charles Hanson Towne
#40. You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?
Robert Towne
#41. The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
Robert Towne
#42. The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.
Henry R. Towne
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