Robert Towne

Towne, Robert Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Salinger

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Monk on Fire

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Roads of Asgard

  2009, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Robert Towne

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Roads of Asgard

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Roads of Asgard

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chinatown: Filming

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chinatown: The Legacy

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chinatown: The Beginning and the End

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 50 Films to See Before You Die

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ask the Dust

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ask the Dust

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Outsider

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: An American Original

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

  2005, role: actor , character name: Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Suspect Zero

  2004, role: actor , character name: Professor Dates
• Play in Full Screen A Decade Under the Influence

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Kid Stays in the Picture

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rescued from the Closet

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Film Director
• Play in Full Screen Behind the Mission: The Making of 'M:I-2'

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mission: Impossible II

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Chinatown Revisited with Roman Polanski, Robert Evans and Robert Towne

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Without Limits

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Without Limits

  1998, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cadillac Desert

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mission: Impossible

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Love Affair

  1994, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Firm

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Two Jakes

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Two Jakes

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Days of Thunder

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Days of Thunder

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

  1989, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Frantic

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Tequila Sunrise

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Tequila Sunrise

  1988, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Pick-up Artist

  1987, role: actor , character name: Stan
• Play in Full Screen The Bedroom Window

  1987, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Tough Guys Don't Dance

  1987, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen 8 Million Ways to Die

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Deal of the Century

  1983, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Personal Best

  1982, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Personal Best

  1982, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Personal Best

  1982, role: writer

Famous quotes by Robert Towne:

"There must have been something inevitable about it because we got it done. I lived with (the book) for 20 years when I didn't write (the adaptation), and when I did write it, I lived with it for the next 10, 12 years."

"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."

"I started doing it and I couldn't stop. It really tired the patience of the people around me."

"To the extent of wanting me there and wanting to know everything about the scene, I think he realized it was important."

"There was no scene between father and son, and there was a deep-seated need for the two protagonists in the story to face each other with the consequences of what had happened. Now he was able to express to his son that his whole life had been a struggle to prevent this very thing from happening."

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

"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."

"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."

"Roman is hands-down the best director I've ever worked with, ... But all of the 1970s was a great era because the studios really left you alone. What has come to be called 'independent film,' you could really do within the studio system at that time."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."