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.

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.