The Writer Speaks: Robert Towne Part 2 

This channel is incredible. So glad I found it. Thanks for sharing all this goodness!

Too bad he is gone too soon, he talks from the soul! I will miss his work and as a person for a long time. I admired Bo Goldman

You're full of surprises, Writer's Guild! Didn't expect to see more of this one. Thank you!

Towne is a highly intelligent man and a sensitive, thoughtful, gifted, and by the way, very successful writer. He is a soft spoken man and has no obligation to be loud and bombastic just to satisfy the trolls who prowl RU-vid. The writers guild however, does have an obligation to record their interviews professionally, which they did not do in this case. The audio is terrible. That doesn't give the trolls the right to insult the interviewee. Not his fault.

Every time my wife and I are watching a movie or TV show and someone drives up to a building and finds a parking space right in front we always yell, "Parking space right in front!" So yes, Robert!

ANOTHER Surface interview. No hard questions at all!!! What about the drug issue? Surely that must have been a very difficult time for Towne, but here it is though it never happened.

I’ve never considered myself to be a “troll” (whatever that really means), but I do agree with at least one comment noting that the interviewer should have asked more pointed and interesting questions.

Great actors do inspire great writing.....seems that Jack inspired the dialogic brilliance of his writing.

Wondered if Towne would mention the name of Ed Taylor and Taylor's reported major contributions toward the screenplays for Chinatown, and other Towne flicks. Interestingly, he did not.

What a surprise . Raymond Chandler being the source .

You guys need to boost the audio on your RU-vid uploads.

The interviewer raises my hackle by using the term "hone in" where "home in" is correct (34:28). Merriam Webster, which normally accepts any use of a word, even considers hone in not preferable.

Turn up the volume. Especially with someone as somnolent as Towne.

I remember Otash

The sound recording in this video is simply disgraceful. You can barely hear the man. And you’re film people! Shame on you.