“No, no, no” Polanski said: Academy Screening, Nov. 18, 2004.
“Roman, I don’t think I should stand”: Hawk Koch to author.
“I saw immediately”: English, “‘Chinatown.’”
“total and complete”: Hawk Koch to author.
“Is this shot about me”: Biskind, “Low Road.”
“I’ll be right there”: Hawk Koch to author.
“smiling like a monkey”: Ken Kelley, “That Old Magic,” Viva, circa 1975.
“Let’s not tell anyone”: Polanski, Roman, 359.
“That’s a fantastic relationship”: Ken Kelley, “That Old Magic,” Viva, circa 1975.
“It will be okay, Jack”: Hawk Koch to author.
versed in all manner of mechanics: Ibid.
busloads of actors: Sandford, Polanski: A Biography, 194.
“Jack, please,” he said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
“I think we ended up with about twelve”: Biskind, “Low Road.”
“a little kid who was fighting”: Hawk Koch to author.
“alone, staring off into space”: Gorgiana Alonzo to author.
“the greatest prolonged boom”: Andreas Killen, 1973: Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America, 3.
“a genuine low point in U.S. history”: Ibid., 4.
“the endless exfoliations”: Tom Wolfe, “The Perfect Crime,” Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine (Bantam, 1977).
“It is astonishing”: Ibid.
He invited cast and crew: Roman Polanski to author.
“He decided he was going”: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, directed by Marina Zenovich.
“this is the most important thing”: “Roman Polanski by Thom Mount.”
Polanski would play offended: Nandu Hinds to author.
“Nicholson could stay up”: Iorio, “Cover Story.”
He was often with Evans: Robert Evans to author.
“I was amazed sometimes”: Zimmerman, “Blood and Water.”
“It was bizarre”: Hawk Koch to author.
“You find these things”: Roman Polanski Interviews, 62.
rolling his fingers over the face: Nandu Hinds to author.
“She wouldn’t say it”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-hOU56WwU.
“Look,” she said to Jack: Dunaway, Looking for Gatsby, 250.
“You think you’ve got problems, Dread?”: Ibid., 256.
The set was tense: Hawk Koch to author.
“I don’t like hittin’ women”: English, “‘Chinatown’: Two Wrongs Make a Right.”
“This is the place, right here, guys”: Ibid.
Alonzo reviewed the particulars with her: Gorgiana Alonzo to author.
“in the iris of the eye”: Alonzo, “Behind the Scenes.”
“I noticed there’s no name”: James Hong to author.
“It’s all different now”: English, “‘Chinatown’: Two Wrongs Make a Right.”
a houseplant in the kitchen: crew member to author.
“it would take hours”: Nandu Hinds to author.
“She prepared intensely”: James Hong to author.
“I used to love my father”: Lloyd Shearer, “Faye Dunaway: Strong, Southern, Sexy and Striving for Stardom,” Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 1967, C8.
“a wicked grin on his face”: Dunaway, Looking for Gatsby, 240.
“Universal made shit”: Polanski to author.
“We were shooting the my sister/my daughter”: Academy Screening, Nov. 18, 2004.
“I’m gonna get your ass, Bobby”: Baumgold, “Robert Evans Production.”
“Nicholson is the vulnerable attacker”: Robert Evans to author.
“gutter players”: Grobel, Above the Line, 37.
“Would you get me a sweater?”: Baumgold, “Robert Evans Production.”
Henry Kissinger, a frequent overnight guest: Robert Evans to author.
“He’s imprinted everywhere”: Matt Tyrnauer, “Evans Gate,” Vanity Fair.
“America’s gift, its greatest cultural”: Robert Evans to author.
“You know, Robert”: Ibid.
Evans expelled him from Woodland: Bart, Infamous Players, 42.
“It was built for me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_Y1-knz8s.
“a social history of the region”: Walker, “The Bird Is on His Own.”
“The first story began in 1937”: Ibid.
“It’s a big piece of writing”: Ibid.
“Now really, Sue”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImVvMovTVw.
“The turnout of guests was dazzling”: Bart, Infamous Players, 44.
let himself dream of the glamour: Susanna Moore to author.
white orchids: Didion, White Album, 153.
“since there are enough imponderables”: Ibid., 154.
“It is in this tropism toward survival”: Ibid., 155.
“The action is everything”: Ibid., 160.
“It’s a very small group of people”: Sam Cohn interviewed by William Wolf, William Wolf Papers, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
“You pull out”: Didion, White Album, 167.
“nearly fifty miles an hour”: Burke, “Restoration.”
“Put it into your words”: Roman Polanski to author.
“The point is the girl dies”: Kirk Honeycutt, “‘Chinatown’: Don’t Forget It,” Hollywood Reporter, Apr. 25, 1995.
“Okay, Earl”: Alonzo, “Behind the Scenes.”
“I want a crane,” he said: Ibid.
“In the sequence, up to this point”: Ibid.
“Roman was on one end”: James Hong to author.
“What took you so long?”: Huston, Watch Me, 36.
“Now come on, John”: Burke, “Restoration.”
“Iksnalop”: Saul Kahan, “Polanski Talks about ‘Chinatown,’” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 3, 1974.
“I want the mark now!”: Burke, “Restoration.”
on the hood of the Packard: Justin Humphreys, Names You Never Remember, with Faces You Never Forget.
gambling debts: Julie Payne to author.
“I liked myself in Chinatown”: Lawrence Grobel, John Huston, Playboy interview, Sept. 1985.
“He was very unhappy at the time”: David Thomson, “A Bit of a Coyote, a Hell of a Woman,” American Film, Nov. 1990.
“Where is chair for Mr. Huston”: Burke, “Restoration.”
“A film sums up the experiences”: Weinraub, “If You Don’t Show.”
“I don’t know who designed”: Great to Be Nominated Part Three: Aug. 14, 2006.
“This playing of endless children’s”: Burke, “Restoration.”
“Chinatown was the first film where I had”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-hOU56WwU.
“I was really like a racing driver”: Ibid.