Robert Towne: ‘I don’t think you have much choice’
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Oscar-winning writer Robert Towne (“Chinatown”) was seated on a folding chair outside Sony today. He said his back was giving him trouble. He held a picket sign.
‘It really doesn’t matter what business you are in if the living you make is threatened. I don’t think you have much choice. A strike is like war in a way. Nobody wins, but they are also sometimes unavoidable. I guess this is unavoidable.’
Towne, 73, said he has a script pending at Sony, a World War II story that he said he finished in just one draft.
--Robert W. Welkos