Robert Towne

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director. His most notable work may be his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974).

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    Resolve to win—period—because that is the American system. You take either side—it doesn’t even matter which one—and you go on the attack.
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    Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
    —Robert Towne (b. 1936)