“Our emergency plan”: Polanski, Roman, 13.
“Let’s sleep”: Ibid.
she was a survivor: Ibid., 12.
“What can we do?”: Polanski, Roman, 13.
“But at the same time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
“Children don’t have any point of reference”: Franz-Oliver Giesbert, “Roman’s Novel,” trans. Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in Roman Polanski: Interviews, ed. Cronin, 103.
“smart kid”: Polanski, Roman, 19.
“I’d always had a craving”: Ibid.
“My own worst fear at this time”: Ibid., 21.
“Of course, science gives hope”: “Roman Polanski by Thom Mount,” Interview, Sept. 1985.
“Germans would raid families”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDrSZJ6sAE.
“[Pawel] was my first friendship”: Ibid.
“That’s what [war] means to me”: Richard Coombs, “Traveler Running Out of Countries,” Observer, Sept. 27, 1992.
“We heard noises coming from upstairs”: Flax, “Exclusive: The Roman Polanski Interview.”
The blood, he noted…, burst from her back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDrSZJ6sAE.
“I remember,” Polanski said: “A Safe Darkness—Transcripts.” William Friedkin Papers, file 1209, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
“He had a photo of him with his mother”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDrSZJ6sAE.
“They took your mother…”: Polanski, Roman, 24.
like being on the moon, she said: Ibid., 257.
“I have never made love more often”: Ibid., 258.
“Here in L.A.,” he reflected, “there were no skyscrapers”: Ibid., 204.
“For all of us”: Ibid.
At Disneyland he remembered Kraków: Ibid.
“an epidiascope,” he recalled: Ibid., 15.
“As a matter of fact”: “A Safe Darkness—Transcripts,” William Friedkin Papers, file 1209, roll 1, prod. 00290, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: Polanski, Roman, 6.
“I read whatever I could on filmmaking”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out: Laurent Vachaud, “Ben-Hur’s Riding Crop,” trans. Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in ed. Cronin, Roman Polanski: Interviews.
“The whole atmosphere, strangely enough”: https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0804-Winter-2008-09/Interview-Roman-Polanski.aspx.
“I always liked the movies that happen”: Scott Foundas, “Polanski: Art as Life,” Variety Los Angeles (Apr. 8, 2014): 36–39.
“Let’s imagine that all of a sudden”: Ciment, Perez, and Tailleur, “Interview with Roman Polanski,” 42.
“Roman was an insatiable presence”: Lawrence Weschler, “Artist in Exile,” New Yorker, December 5, 1994, 93.
“It’s so naïvely beautiful”: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/roman-polanski-/#.
“what cinema”: Michel Pérez, “Thriller à la Polanski,” trans. Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in ed. Cronin, Roman Polanski: Interviews, 124.
“Go West,” Roman said: Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse, “Interview with Roman Polanski,” trans. Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in ed. Cronin, Roman Polanski: Interviews, 146.
“to recreate, in a sense”: Joel Reisner and Bruce Kane, “Interview with Roman Polanski,” Cinema 5, no. 2 (Aug. 1969).
“Listen, sweetie,” the producer: “‘Sexy Little Me,’” John Bowers, Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1967.
“I know the American public”: Ibid.
unpretentious baggy pants: Ibid.
“What’s funny is that”: Lee Beaupre, “Roman Polanski in Hate ’N’ Love,” Weekly Variety, Feb. 7, 1968.
“The studio pioneers might have been”: Dominique Maillet, “Roman Polanski,” trans. Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in ed. Cronin, Roman Polanski: Interviews, 90.
“The movie business,” Richard Zanuck announced: Peter Bart, “Hollywood: New Riches, New Doubts; Hollywood Today: New Affluence, New Leaders, New Doubts,” New York Times, Dec. 12, 1966, 1.
“Not since the start of the talkies”: Ibid.
“The greatest talents from all fields: Maillet, “Roman Polanski,” 90.
“It’s like an immense suburb”: Ibid.
“You’re a genius”: Roberts Evans interview with author.
he began an investigation: Ibid.
“Downhill Racer was just a pretext to get you here”: Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture (New York: Hyperion, 1994), 142.
Polanski read the book in one sitting: Annie Nocenti, “Adapting and Directing Rosemary’s Baby: A Talk with Roman Polanski,” Scenario, 5, no. 4.
“I thought that I can get around it”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8LbUhPzLE.
recalled Norma Desmond’s: Polanski, Roman, 263.
“This cannot possibly last”: Polanski, Playboy interview.
“and I shall never forget”: Polanski, Roman, 276.
“the wide open spaces”: Rider McDowell, “At the Point of No Return,” California, Aug. 1991.
“When I came to the States”: Ibid.
“They seem to be much more intelligent”: Gabriel Yorke, “The Slavic Odyssey of Roman Polanski,” Village Voice, May 18, 1967.
“It was Utopia”: Jill Robinson, “Polanski’s Inferno” Vanity Fair, Apr. 1997.
“This is fantastic!”: Yorke, “Slavic Odyssey.”
“There are no young people in Hollywood”: Gretchen Weinberg, “Interview with Roman Polanski,” Sight and Sound, Winter 63–64.
“The change has come”: Peter Bart, “Executive Suite: Accent on Youth,” New York Times, Nov. 20, 1966.
“Most top executives”: Bart, “Hollywood: New Riches, New Doubts.”
“There are three important men”: William Murray, “Jack Hanson, the Man Behind the Daisy,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 16, 1967.
“few stars have ever been east of Doheny”: Barbara Wilkins, “A Tourist Guide for Tracking the Stars,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 3, 1969.
“It sounds absurd to call the scene”: Dominick Dunne, “Murder Most Unforgettable,” Vanity Fair, Apr. 2001.
“underscored an interesting change”: Peter Bart, “Liberals vs. Their Movies,” New York Times, Aug. 29, 1965.
“We were all enchanted”: Eve Babitz, “The Summer of ’69,” Esquire, Aug. 1994.
“That was the beginning of this group”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8LbUhPzLE