276 “She wanted to”: Bogdanovich, AI, 8/1/97.

  276 “It was treated”: Margie Rochlin, “Peter Bogdanovich,” Interview, 3/85, p. 134.

  276 “the debacle.”: Hal Rubinstein, “Cybill Shepherd,” Interview, 11/86.

  276 “Because whenever there”: Mengers, AI, 2/21/95.

  276 “Then the ushers”: Platt, AI, 6/29/94.

  276 “There would be” and following: Cohen, AI, 5/12/95.

  277 “The effects didn’t work”: Spielberg, AI, 1/15/97.

  277 “That decision was”: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  277 “It was definitely”: Michael Chapman, AI, 3/28/97.

  277 “That’s when I knew”: Griffin, “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  278 “My secretary handed me”: Ibid.

  278 “My influences”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  278 “has no knowledge”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 396; Baxter, Steven Spielberg, p. 31.

  279 “The summer of ’75”: Griffin, notes for “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  279 “I was giving”: Judy Schneider AI, 12/15/97.

  280 “People had been warning”: Brackman, AI, 4/30/93.

  280 “I knocked on”: Blauner, AI, 3/1/94.

  280 “It may have been”: Brackman, AI, 4/30/93.

  280 “There was such”: Salt, AI, 3/1/94.

  281 “During my era”: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  281 “There’s no audience”: Kael, “On the Future of Movies,” New Yorker, 8/5/74.

  282 “I can’t believe it.”: Wiley and Bona, Inside Oscar, p. 515.

  282 “In the early ’70s”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/17/94.

  283 “The number of times”: Confidential source.

  283 “I got a lot of credit”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 417.

  283 “Steven started to resent”: Julia Phillips, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, New York, 1991, p. 203.

  283 “Spielberg didn’t write it.” and following: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  283 “made me pressure”: Phillips, You7/Never Eat Lunch, p. 203.

  283 “Steve felt he”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  283 “seemed to resent”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 418.

  284 “It surprises me”: Baxter, Steven Spielberg, p. 155.

  284 “Steven started cutting”: Robbins, AI, 5/2/97.

  284 “Don’t you like”: Cohen, AI, 5/12/95.

  285 “I marched in”: Leo Janos, “Steven Spielberg: L’Enfant Directeur.”

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  286 Epigraph: John Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  286 “Milius and I’: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91; Biskind, “What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been,” Premiere, 4/92.

  286 “If there was ever”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  286 “It needs more of this.”: Walker, AI, 2/26/94.

  286 “Put it back.”: Kiki Morris, AI, n.d.

  287 “He was always”: Penny Marshall, AI, 2/9/92.

  287 “I was afraid of them” and following: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  287 “probably loaded”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/6/95.

  287 “this is what”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  288 “Leonard bore the brunt”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  288 “No matter what”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/17/94.

  288 “Do you remember”: Laura De Coppet, “To Hell with Paul Schrader,” Interview, 3/92, p. 53.

  288 “What saved me” and following: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  289 “I fell in love” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.

  290 “I felt shit” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91; Diane Jacobs, “Mr. Taxi Driver,” Gallery, 8/76, p. 89.

  291 “I traveled all night” and following: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  292 “They turned off”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.

  292 “That’s where I”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  292 “I became the older brother”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/13/95.

  293 “The salesman took”: Milius, 1/9/92.

  293 “When he sold”: Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  293 “Father and I”: Confidential source.

  293 “Beer bottles would”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  293 “he would point”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  293 “The first thing”: Carson, AI, 1/30/92.

  294 “Before video”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  294 “We didn’t have”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/17/94.

  294 “I don’t give a fuck” and following: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  295 “Somewhere in between: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  295 “1. a hooker”: Charles Michener, “Taxi Driver,” Film Comment, 3–4/76, p. 11.

  295 “You know what the gun”: Michener, “Taxi Driver,” p. 19.

  296 “What really made”: Michael Phillips, AI, 3/14/92.

  297 “Never introduce me”: AI, Weaver, 10/8/96.

  297 “Those were the kinda”: Confidential source.

  298 “Terry wouldn’t let go”: Nelson, 11/11/94.

  298 “That’ll tell you”: Bert Schneider, AI, 2/14/95.

  298 “Well I didn’t know”: Confidential source.

  298 “He’s out, Derns”: Dern, AI, 6/17/95.

  298 “I burned out”: Confidential source.

  299 “Godard was the great”: Chapman, AI, 3/28/97.

  299 “We had been referring”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  299 “At that time”: Mengers, AI, 2/21/95.

  300 “We always said”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  300 “He treated Jodie”: Confidential source.

  300 “The pressure was” and following: Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  300 “they put up”: Confidential source.

  301 “I sat down” and following: Julia Cameron, AI, 12/2/97.

  301 “Nobody liked her.”: Amy Jones, AI, 6/30/97.

  301 “insanely jealous”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  301 “She was a real”: Confidential source.

  301 “How do you push”: Chapman, AI, 3/28/97.

  301 “I was just”: Cameron, AI, 12/2/97.

  301 “I told Marty”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  302 “He was the guy”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  302 “He was like”: Taplin, AI, 7/30/91.

  302 “would have turned”: Ehrenstein, The Scorsese Picture, p. 115.

  302 “It wasn’t just”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.

  302 “Vietnam polarized”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.

  303 “Towne had Kael”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.

  303 “Towne sent me”: James Toback, AI, n.d.

  303 “I just loved”: Towne, AI, 11/6/97.

  303 “I didn’t review”: Pauline Kael, AI, 8/5/95.

  304 “Beatty said”: Towne, AI, 11/6/97.

  304 “Bob always said”: Geffen, AI, 4/18/96; Corrie Brown, “No Love Affair,” Premiere, 2/95.

  305 “It was Towne” and following: Beatty, AI, 3/6/95.

  305 “The great secret” and following: Payne, AI, 1/19/95.

  305 “You’re ten minutes”: Confidential source.

  305 “Marty is not”: Michener, “Taxi Driver,” p. 13.

  306 “Marty’s upset about” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/6/95.

  306 “I’m an artist”: Ehrenstein, The Scorsese Picture, p. 116.

  306 “Can you come up here?”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  307 “we went around” and following: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  308 “When I started”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  308 “ ‘Why haven’t you’ “ and following: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  308 “The feeling was”: Green, AI, 12/3/96.

  308 “This is the best”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  309 “a sense of people”: Clagett, William Friedkin, p. 140.

  309 “He said, ‘I can’t’”: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  309 “All I ever thought”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  310 “Billy had won”: Mark Johnson, AI, 12/17/94.

  310 “More per diem” and following: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  310 “When Bluhdorn saw”: Segaloff, Hurricane Billy, p. 164.

  310 “If we had shot”: Mark Johnson, AI, 12/17/94.

  310 “I was the only”: Scheider, AI, 9/16/97.

  310 “At first it was”: Smith, AI, 12/13/96.

  311 “The pig was dying”: Segaloff, Hurricane Billy, p. 163.

  311 “had broken up”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  311 “She told him”: Green, AI, 12/3/96.

  311 “I had a blood test”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  311 “You know”: Green, AI, 12/3/96.

  312 “At that time”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  312 “I want to show”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  312 “These guys operate” and following: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96; Smith, AI, 12/13/96; Green, AI, 12/3/96.

  313 “doing one of these”: Smith, AI, 12/3/96.

  313 “Joe, you were”: Joe Hyams, AI, 4/9/92.

  313 “It was a moment”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/6/95.

  313 “we’re fucked”: Sean Daniel, AI, 11/13/93.

  313 “See, it wasn’t”: Phillips, You’ll Never Eat Lunch, p. 253.

  314 “Characters like Travis”: Jacobs, “Mr. Taxi Driver,” p. 90.

  314 “One of the reasons”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  314 “What animated Hollywood”: Beatty, AI, 1/7/98.

  315 “What drove me”: Fletcher, AI, 6/22/94.

  315 “One of the things”: Scorsese, AI, 2/91.

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  316 Epigraph: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.

  316 “New York, New York” and following: Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  316 “I just don’t”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  317 “Norman Rockwell”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 39.

  317 “scrawny little devil”: Gerald Clarke, “I Got to Get My Life Back Again,” Time, 5/23/83, p. 68.

  317 “What we had”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  317 “You’ll be back”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 38.

  317 “Movies had extremely”: “Young Directors, New Films,” AFI Report, 1974, p. 45.

  318 “We had never”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 70.

  318 “L.A. is where”: David Thomson, Overexposures, New York, 1981, p. 40.

  318 “When I did Graffiti”: Sheff, “George Lucas”; Scanlon, “The Force Behind George Lucas.”

  318 “a fantasy”: “Young Directors, New Films,” p. 46.

  318 “was a conscious”: Sheff, “George Lucas.”

  319 “George didn’t want”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 136.

  319 “To this day”: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.

  319 “He had this”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  319 “They’re similar”: Scorsese, AI, 5/8/96.

  320 “George is just”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  320 “Francis was questioning”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 128.

  320 “That movie could”: Lillian Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” New Yorker, 11/8/82, p. 63.

  320 “He had been burned”: Pollock, AI, 1/21/93.

  320 “But it didn’t”: Confidential source.

  320 “George said to me”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  321 “I’ve made”: Scanlon, “The Force Behind George Lucas.”

  321 “When George said”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  322 “All Francis did” and following: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  322 “Whatever Francis does”: Braudy, “Francis Ford Coppola: A Profile,” p. 67.

  322 “I was always”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  322 “I know what”: Confidential source.

  323 “young AI Pacinos”: Braudy, “Francis Ford Coppola,” p. 68.

  323 “The film continued”: Greil Marcus, “Journey Up the River,” Rolling Stone, 11/1/79, p. 52.

  323 “People used to”: Ibid.

  323 “The jungle will”: Braudy, “Francis Ford Coppola,” p. 68

  323 “I know you’ve”: Corman, How I Made, p. 40.

  324 “Someday I won’t”: Braudy, “Francis Ford Coppola,” p. 66.

  324 “They said, ‘George’ ”: John Seabrook, “Why Is the Force Still with Us?,” New Yorker, 1/6/97, p. 50.

  324 “George thinks”: Nancy Allen, AI, 11/14/94.

  325 “They’re already nervous”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  325 “They started shooting”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  325 “You get a big”: Scorsese, AI, 8/1/91.

  325 “After Mean Streets”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  325 “I didn’t know”: Scorsese, AI, 5/7/96.

  325 “I blame all that” and following: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  326 “How could you!” and following: Pat Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, New York, 1989, p. 92.

  326 “By the time”: Chris Mankiewicz, AI, 6/21/94.

  326 “De Palma, who I”: Huyck, AI, 6/28/94.

  326 “There was no”: Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.

  327 “Having been”: Robbins, AI, 5/2/97.

  327 “ILM was a mess.”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  327 “We were under”: Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.

  327 “I knew he was” and following: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 150.

  328 “You can make”: Ibid.

  328 “No breasts bouncing”: Ibid., p. 165.

  328 “By the time” and following: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  328 “They hit it off”: De Palma, AI, 11/9/93.

  328 “You’d think she”: De Palma, AI, 11/9/93.

  328 “She was a”: Cohen, AI, 5/12/95.

  328 “I know he’s” and following: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 295.

  329 “George does not”: Howard Kazanjian, AI, 6/29/94.

  329 “When George and”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  329 “I realized why”: Scanlon, “The Force Behind George Lucas.”

  329 “George, you can”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 64.

  329 “O.K., same thing”: Seabrook, “Why is the Force Still with Us?” pp. 46, 48.

  329 “George would sit”: Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  329 “I got fifty”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  329 “George wouldn’t let me”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  330 “I only got 30 percent”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  330 “Marcia respected Marty”: Hirsch, AI, 11/15/93.

  330 “She abandoned George”: Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  330 “For George, the whole”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  330 “When I heard him”: Scorsese, AI, 5/7/96.

  330 “I didn’t think”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  331 “I knew that”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 276.

  331 “Why don’t you turn”: Jim Bloom, AI, 3/3/97.

  331 “I asked for”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  332 “Don’t you understand”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 296.

  332 “Feminism was really”: Cohen, AI, 5/12/95.

  332 “I could tell”: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  333 “I liked Amy”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 4/30/97.

  333 “I’m glad I didn’t do Star Wars”: Richard Licata, New York Daily News, 3/19/78.

  333 “Amy was like”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  333 “Who made it?”: Confidential source.

  333 “If little Jodie”: Bert Lovitt, AI, 7/7–9/97.

  333 “Without thinking” and following: Taplin, AI, 7/30/91.

  334 “You’d have the anxiety”: Scorsese, AI, 7/18/97.

  334 “It’s the At” and following: AIs with Katz and Huyck, 6/16/94; George Lucas, 5/2/97; Marcia Lucas, 3/3/97; Spielberg, 12/9/96; Robbins, 5/2/97; Allen, 11/14/94; Cocks, 3/7/96.

  335 “I remember the day”: Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.

  335 “Star Wars was the can opener”: Murch, AI, 4/20/97.

  335 “Previews always mean” and following: Hirsch, AI, 11/15/93.

  336 “I’ve done everything”: Huyck and Katz, AI, 6/28/94.

  336 “There were people” and following: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/91.

  336 “You know, these”: Huyck and Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  337 “Send money.”: Baxter, Steven Spielberg, p. 2.

  337 “Jesus, Harrison”: Cocks, AI, 3/7/96.

  337 “When our trailer”: Smith, AI, 12/13/96.

  337 “This film’s doing”: Green, AI, 12/3/96.

  337 “He probably put”: Smith, AI, 12/13/96.

  338 “I probably shouldn’t”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  338 “The four of them”: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  338 “For a while”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  338 “I thought I was”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  338 “God, I’ve wanted”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  339 “I was angry”: Scorsese, AI, 7/13/91.

  339 “I was just too” and following: Scorsese, AI, 7/18/97.

  339 “The trouble with”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  339 “I really didn’t want”: Scorsese, AI, 8/1/91.

  340 “Why are you”: Pollock, AI, 1/21/93.

  340 “Oh, I’m gonna” and following: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  340 “These guys got”: Milius, AI, 1/31/92 and 3/16/92.

  341 “Let’s stop”: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.

  341 “Ladd left me”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.

  341 “If you’re the executive”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  341 “I got screwed”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 247.

  342 “that are all”: Kael, “Fear of Movies,” New Yorker, 9/25/87.

  342 “It was a vanishing”: Kirk Honeycutt, Newsday, 12/8/91.

  342 “Blockbusters have to: Peter Biskind, “The Last Crusade,” in Seeing Through Movies, Mark Crispin Miller, ed., New York, 1990.

  342 “brought kids out”: Kirk Honeycutt, “Milius the Barbarian,” American Film, 5/82.

  343 “showed people it”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 186.

  343 “It wasn’t camp”: Scanlon, “The Force Behind George Lucas.”

  343 “What my generation”: Robert Lindsey, “The New New Wave of Film Makers,” New York Times, 5/28/78.

  343 “I’m an advocate” and following: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  344 “Star Wars was in.”: Scorsese, 5/1/96.

  344 “When I was at USC”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  344 “Star Wars swept”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  344 “Star Wars didn’t” and following: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  345 “They’re not subsidizing”: Scorsese, AI, 7/18/97.

  345 “Last summer trying”: Altman, AI, 6/30/97.

  345 “Right now, I’m just”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

 

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