“He’s putting down a dance floor?”: Hawk Koch to author.
“had his name on a number of films”: C.O. Erickson Oral History AMPAS, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
“like ordering a first class suit”: http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/roman_polanski_526.htm.
“letting them rehearse and seeing”: David Thompson, “I Make Films for Adults,” Sight and Sound, Apr. 1, 1995.
“Get your clubfoot”: Jesse Vint to author.
any closer to the actors: Howard Koch to author.
Vint raised the crutch: Jesse Vint to author.
“He cannot stop”: Tom Burke, “The Restoration of Roman Polanski,” Rolling Stone, July 18, 1974.
“You think that’s a hit?”: Jesse Vint to author.
Studying the results: Ibid.
Why should he tell Polanski: Robert Evans to author.
a tall rider on a white horse: Jesse Vint to author.
She was never one for set visits: Anjelica Huston, Watch Me (New York: Scribner, 2014), 36.
she saw him in Easy Rider: Ibid., 7.
“Good evening, ladies”: Ibid.
he saw class: Martha Sherrill, “Anjelica Huston: Strictly Original,” The Washington Post, Nov. 28, 1991.
they danced for hours: Huston, Watch Me, 7.
“Does that make me a secondary one?”: Ibid., 8.
In New York: Ibid., 20.
When she arrived in London: Ibid., 21.
slept with another woman: Ibid.
“Oh, Toots,” he answered: Ibid.
She tried to imagine marriage: Diann Maychick, Mademoiselle, April 1987.
In Barcelona: Huston, Watch Me, 27.
She became a detective: Ibid., 29.
“my idol since childhood”: Deborah Caulfield, “Nicholson on the Matter of His ‘Honor,’” Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1985.
“I consciously knew for a certain period”: “Jack Nicholson Has Never Been to an Orgy,” GQ, Jan. 1996.
“He’s one of those people”: Lawrence Grobel, The Hustons (New York: Scribner, 1989), 760.
“Jack’s a virtuoso”: Gene Siskel, “Terms of Fulfillment: Jack Nicholson Talks About His Career,” Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1985.
His own father Huston practically never: John Huston Interviews, 198.
“And since he had never played”: Ibid.
“When John Huston dies”: Brad Darrach, “Jack Finds His Queen of Hearts,” People, July 8, 1985.
“I felt that I had to do the movie”: Lawrence Grobel, The Hustons (New York: Scribner, 1989), 603
“she’s going to die on that horse”: Ibid., 606.
“practically do [Anjelica] in”: Ibid.
“But the more you”: Ibid., 226.
“I couldn’t get through my own pain”: Ibid., 613.
“You don’t like Van Gogh?”: Mark Morrison, “Life with Father,” LA Times Magazine, June 21 1987.
she clung to his leg: Ibid.
“a certain kind of square-earthed”: Grobel, The Hustons, 675.
“triangular offstage situation”: Rosenbaum, “Acting.”
“I hear you’re sleeping”: Huston, Watch Me, 36.
“I don’t like sunlight very much”: Polanski interview, June 17, 1976, Cinefantastique Magazine Records, The Tenant, folder 761, AMPAS Special Collections.
“Roman was just letting everybody know”: Thomas Kiernan, “Roman and Sharon,” Oui, June 1981.
“What’s with the ending?”: Robert Evans to author.
Evans claimed Frank Yablans refused: Ibid.
The Santa Anas were blowing: Diaries of Annie Marshall.
“meek little wives feel the edge”: Raymond Chandler, “Red Wind,” Dime Detective, Jan. 1938.
“woke in the night troubled not only”: Joan Didion, “Los Angeles Notebook” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), 218.
“The city burning,”: Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 220.
niggling Polanski to change: Roman Polanski to author.
to flush her own toilet: Biskind, “Low Road.”
“Ugh. Here she comes”: Crewperson to author.
an actress who hadn’t prepared: Roman Polanski to author.
“I think Jack and Roman had great patience”: Hawk Koch to author.
“The word motivation”: Mel Gusow, “Only Faye Dunaway Knows What She’s Hiding,” New York Times, Oct. 20, 1974.
“rigid, dictatorial approach”: Ibid.
“A director like Polanski”: Ibid.
“Hi, Faye. It’s Howard”: Hawk Koch to author.
“Give me those things”: Ibid.
“Lunch!”: Ibid.
“I don’t believe it!”: Polanski, Roman, 356.
“Fire Polanski”: Robert Evans to author.
“she did it with a wink”: Peter Bart to author.
“Sue couldn’t read a contract”: Confidential source to author.
“I’ll give you Mark Rydell”: Robert Evans to author.
“One or the other”: Ibid.
“What is this?”: Roman Polanski to author.
“were sometimes quite naive,”: Ibid.
“Cortez’s style”: Ibid.
“Bob, you tell him,”: Ibid.
“was always this charming, wonderful man”: Ibid.
“He wants reality”: Gorgiana Alonzo to author.
a “précis of the city”: Ibid.
“a quick appreciation”: Ibid.
“They stole the water?” Ibid.
“I work with a very lean” Ibid.
“How can you do this?”: Doc Erickson Oral History, 386, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
“cognizant of the cinematographer’s problems”: John. A. Alonzo, “Behind the Scenes of ‘Chinatown,’” American Cinematographer 56, no. 5 (May 1975).
“he would motion at Alonzo”: Gorgiana Alonzo to author.
“were out-and-out”: Alonzo, “Behind the Scenes.”
“[Polanski] would pick out”: Ibid.
“I have an idea”: Ibid.
Polanski defended the rigor of his frame: Gorgiana Alonzo to author.
“exasperated”: Priscilla English, “‘Chinatown’: Two Wrongs Make a Right,” Los Angeles Times, May 5, 1974.
Nicholson, hands in his pockets: Ibid.
“I want it like this”: Diane Ladd to author.
“Everyone thought Roman”: Ibid.
“Roman, what is that?”: Ibid.
“When it came to”: Maggie Parker to author.
“I look at acting”: http://movieline.com/2004/11/01/jack-nicholson-a-chat-with-jack/.
Lakers tickets: Diaries of Annie Marshall.
receive the stimulus: Brian Case, “Howlin’ Jack,” Time Out (London), Aug. 17, 1993.
“And it’s just like”: Schiff, “Jumping Jack.”
“Jack,” Polanski said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSZzOk2gETU.
“so I had him talk differently”: Dan Pattarson, “Jack Nicholson and Roman Polanski Talk About Acting at the Strasberg Institute,” Drama-Logue, Jun. 3, 1977.