Famous quotes containing the words towne and/or cinema:
“I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.”
—Robert Towne (b. 1936)
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)