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.

His former father-in-law is late actor John Payne star of the western series The Restless Gun. Robert has a brother Roger who is six years younger. Vazak with the script.

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23 1934) is an American screenwriter and director.