“and we looked and looked”: Hawk Koch to author.
“Because in [1937]”: Iorio, “Guide.”
“squeeze the tension of the chase scene”: Sylbert and Townsend, Designing Movies, 129.
“Yes … I think … It could work…”: Hawk Koch to author.
“Okay,” he would say: Ibid.
“hear and see everything and learn”: Ibid.
Koch walked in the Canon Drive: Ibid.
“I did what I needed to do so”: Robert Evans to author.
“Dick was very attracted to glamour”: Susanna Moore to author.
“Lily just gave birth to tvins”: Sharmagne Leland-St. John to author.
“Dick thought his father”: Susanna Moore to author.
“world I’d stepped into was elegant”: “Richard Sylbert,” Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 20, 2000.
“[W]hat did strike me”: Ibid.
“Even Jack Warner”: Ibid.
“I vatched you on the Academy”: Sharmagne Leland-St. John to author.
“Dick and Paul would sort of disappear”: Anthea Sylbert to author.
“I made an enemy”: Ibid.
“I don’t know,” Anthea reflected: Ibid.
scheduled to arrive at Western Costume at 3:30: June Weir, Article title unavailable, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 28, 1973, AMPAS Chinatown clippings file on microfiche.
“We’ll be here until eight now”: Ibid.
“I’m not fond of blue anyway”: Ibid.
“I thought he would be interested in fashion”: Anthea Sylbert to author.
“I used to even think about”: Ibid.
“telling you who the character is”: Ibid.
“This woman is old money”: Ibid.
“Roman was smart”: Ibid.
“I was born in 1937”: Ibid.
“It’s like doing a painting”: Ibid.
“so my idea of what things”: Ibid.
“I’ll pay for the overtime”: Weir, Title unavailable.
“Today,” she said, “with all our pretensions”: Ibid.
Polanski climbed onto the desk: Jesse Vint to author.
“Where are you from?”: Ibid.
“For me,” he would explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8LbUhPzLE.
“This is the way people work”: “Great to Be Nominated Part Three,” August 14, 2006.
“Doesn’t Evans have a legitimate doctor”: Bart, Infamous Players, 190.
“Take a sniff”: Evans, Kid Stays in the Picture, 268.
give it away in little vials for Christmas: Anthea Sylbert to author.
“It’s a miracle”: Peter Bart to author.
“Evans was too interested”: Ibid.
a most uncollaborative director: Walker, “The Bird Is on His Own.”
“People comically impugn”: Mathews, “Jack Laid-Back.”
“Where else could you have”: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/on-his-own-terms-6022.
“the only truly modern city”: Lynn Hirschberg, “Jack Nicholson,” Rolling Stone, Nov. 5, 1997.
“It would be a shame”: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/on-his-own-terms-6022.
He was in Western Costume: Diaries of Annie Marshall.
“a black porkpie hat”: Fred Schruers, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 14, 1986.
“A very dapper dresser”: Edwin Miller, “No Ego in His Act,” Seventeen, Apr. 1976.
“But I never heard him raise”: David Thomson, “Jack Nicholson, King of Mulholland,” Playgirl, Apr. 1981.
“You’re on your own”: “Jack Nicholson: The Star with the Killer Smile,” Time, Aug. 12, 1974.
“I always knew there wasn’t”: http://ablogawayfromhome.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-with-jack-nicholson-parade.html.
“I come from a small-town”: https://www.gamesradar.com/the-total-film-interview-jack-nicholson/.
“You’ve got to remember that”: Schruers, “Rolling Stone Interview.”
“The only way I’ve been”: Rex Reed, “Movies: The Man Who Walked Off with ‘Easy Rider,’” New York Times, Mar. 1, 1970.
“As an actor”: Walker, “Bird Is on His Own.”
“And I started to realize”: Benjamin Svetkey, “Jack on Jack,” Entertainment Weekly, Jan. 3, 2003.
“There’s something about the familiarity”: Chris Chase, “The Legend That Jack Built,” Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1983.
“You know, Jack”: Ibid.
“Pal, you don’t know me”: Evans, Kid Stays in the Picture, 162–63.
he brokered the casting: Roman Polanski to author.
“When the Ant does your costumes”: Anthea Sylbert to author.
“Jack was easy to dress”: Ibid.
“I’ve always been one of the top”: Kevin Thomas, “Nicholson Leaves Obscurity in Dust,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 28, 1969.
the cancer of film: Hilary de Vries, “Still Simmering Under the Shades,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 6, 1992.
“The overall concept of a film”: Phyllis Battelle, “Movie Actor Tells of Film Set in Hospital,” L.A. Herald-Examiner, Nov. 21, 1975.
“It’s a demographic principle”: Hirschberg, “Jack Nicholson.”
“I’m not going to win”: Ibid.
“I’m a romantic”: Winfred Blevins, “Jack Nicholson: A Realistic Romantic,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb. 14, 1971.
in the back of a station wagon: Peter Biskind, “The Low Road to Chinatown,” Premiere, June 1994.
“And I’ve learned that”: Polanski, Playboy interview.
“psychologically invulnerable”: Ibid.
“If I’ve learned one thing about filmmaking”: Ibid.
threw up in the dirt: Biskind, “Low Road.”
discovering for himself Gittes’s secret: Ron Rosenbaum “The Method and Mystique of Jack Nicholson,” New York Times, Jul. 13, 1986.
He could plan only so much: Gene Siskel, “Jack Is Back,” Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 1982.
“at least 75% of every character I play”: “Jack Nicholson: The Star with the Killer Smile,” Time, Aug. 12, 1974.
“slow to inspire”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTgcasf4X1k.
“crawl completely inside the skin”: Bill Davidson, “The Conquering Antihero,” New York Times, Oct. 12, 1975.
Jake Gittes brought them back: Aljean Harmetz, “Jack Ransacks the Cupboards of His Past,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 31, 1974.
“You believe in aliens?”: Jesse Vint to author.
he had pushed for Gordon Willis: Roman Polanski to author.
Evans feared reteaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5LlVZCqik