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79 “He was great”: Terry Gilliam, AI, 4/3/09.
80 “Am I to assume”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 92.
80 “I don’t think Warren”: AI, 12/9/92.
80 “He seems to me”: Luke Menand, “Paris, Texas,” The New Yorker, 12/14–24/03.
80 “Truffaut was utterly bored”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 343.
80 “There was this funny thing”: AI, 10/2/91.
80 “This is Warren Beatty” and following: Benton, “AMC Backstory,” Bonnie and Clyde, 8/1/00.
81 “My wife was in blue jeans”: Benton, Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
81 “I want to do it” and following: Benton, AI, 4/25/94.
81 “He was walking around”: AI, 3/3/94.
82 “For me, producing means”: Rossen, “The Face of Independence,” Films and Filming, #11, 8/62.
82 “Pretty boys didn’t” and following: Avnet, 5/15/08.
82 “Up until the very last”: Hanson, “Warren Beatty as Producer,” in Wake and Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, pp. 179, 180.
83 “that it was out”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 96.
83 “affected and oddly amateurish”: Bosley Crowther, New York Times, 9/9/65.
83 “Warren and I were talking”: AFI seminar with Robert Towne, moderated by James Powers, 1/22/75.
84 “It was that period”: AI, 10/2/91.
84 “I wanted to challenge”: Beatty, AI, 10/15/91.
84 “It’s an outlandish thought”: Beatty, AI, 3/2/05.
84 “That would be adding”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 112.
85 “I’d love to do” and following: Ibid., p. 110.
85 “Some of these clowns”: Beatty, letter to Benton and Newman, 3/14/66.
85 “the face that launched” and following: James Delingpole, “On the Couch with Julie Christie,” Daily Telegraph, 7/12/95.
86 “When Julie walked in a room”: AI, 3/1/05.
86 “One wanted to see”: Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies, New York, 1994, pp. 376–77.
86 “I hate myself”: Quoted by Oriana Fallaci, in Michael Feeney Callan, Julie Christie, New York, 1984, p. 107.
86 “I was always deeply anxious”: Tim Adams, “The Divine Miss Julie,” Observer, 4/1/07.
86 “Julie was the most beautiful”: AI, 6/11/94.
86 “Warren has an interesting psychology”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 133; Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 4.
87 “I don’t know”: Benton, AI, 12/9/92.
87 “There were a lot”: AI, 12/9/92.
87 “I thought I had”: Bernard Weinraub, “Director Arthur Penn Takes on General Custer,” New York Times, 12/21/69.
88 “I don’t want to do” and following: Penn, AI, 3/2/05.
88 “He punched every button” and following: AI, 1/12/93.
88 “Penn was a court”: AI, 3/3/94.
88 “Arthur was obviously”: AI, 8/25/92.
88 “We made an agreement”: Andre Lebarthe and Jean-Louis Comolli, Cahiers du Cinéma in English, 12/67, in Wake and Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, London, 1972, p. 167.
88 “Look, we’re going”: Wilmington and Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty.”
89 “Beatty and I both”: Bernard Weinraub, “Director Arthur Penn Takes on General Custer,” New York Times, 12/21/69.
89 “Once I said”: AI, 1/12/93.
89 “Being an outlaw”: AI, 8/6/92.
89 “part of it,”: Penn, AI, 1/12/93.
89 “Arthur suggested the whole notion”: AI, 8/6/92.
90 “the myth of Bonnie and Clyde”: David Newman and Robert Benton, “Lightning in a Bottle,” in Wake and Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, p. 27.
90 “Two months in Texas”: Lana Wood, Natalie, p. 123.
90 “She had a lot”: AI, 3/1/05.
90 “She never understood”: Quoted by Dick Sylbert, AI, 6/7/94.
90 “Tell her how you say”: Lambert, Natalie Wood, p. 236.
90 “You’re exquisitely beautiful” and following: Jaglom, AI, 4/25/06.
91 “Warren was the very definition”: AI, 4/14/06.
91 “You bastard”: Millea, “The Revolutionary.”
91 “I’d watch the Warren Beatty show”: AI, 12/7/04.
92 “because he was great”: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 218.
92 “He had nothing”: AI, 9/8/93.
92 “It just struck me”: AI, 1/12/93.
92 “Let me tell you” and following: AI, 8/6/92.
92 “Newman was skeptical”: AI, 3/2/05.
93 “None of us felt”: AI, 3/3/94.
93 “We were so excited” and following: AI, 2/12/94.
93 “the characters are”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
93 “an on-again, off-again actor”: Stefan Kanfer, quoted by Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 192.
93 “The lot seemed to me”: AI, 1/12/93.
93 “If they hadn’t done that”: AI, 6/23/92.
94 “Warren said, ‘He’s’”: AI, 2/15/94.
94 “He always hated me”: AI, n.d.
94 “I used to think” and following: AI, 4/9/92.
94 “Colonel” and following: Joe Hyams, AI, 4/9/92.
95 “Probably. Possibly”: Ebert, “Warren Beatty and Julie Christie and the Map to Presbyterian Church.”
95 “Look, just give me”: Beatty, AI, 3/2/05.
95 “Would I be letting you down” and following: Penn, AI, 3/2/05.
95 “It’s too episodic”: AI, 3/3/94.
95 “Towne was”: AI, 1/12/93.
95 “When I was a kid”: AI, 11/6/97.
96 “Towne was Warren’s buddy” and following: AI, 8/6/92.
96 “When Warren Beatty asked me”: Allan Hunter, Faye Dunaway, New York, 1986, p. 39.
96 “Most of the casting people”: AI, 3/30/94.
97 “I didn’t have much” and following: AI, 6/19/07.
97 “I was doing a TV show”: AI, n.d.
97 “We’re going to get”: Beatty, AI, 11/19/99.
97 “Warren believed in fly-fishing”: AI, 4/25/94.
98 “‘You can’t mix comedy’”: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
98 “We got turned down”: Beatty, “AMC Backstory,” Bonnie and Clyde, 8/1/2000.
98 “We like this girl” and following: Newman, AI, 2/12/94.
98 “We were getting pretty close”: AI, 1/12/93.
98 “Faye was not”: Penn, “AMC Backstory,” Bonnie and Clyde, 8/1/2000.
99 “When we left them”: AI, 12/9/92.
99 “She doesn’t look”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 248.
99 “This was the first”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
99 “‘Who wants to see’”: Larry King interview, #1251, 10/14/94.
99 “We’re not going ahead” and following: Beatty, AI, 3/2/05.
99 “He answered me”: Barbara Walters, How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything, New York, 1970, p. 39.
100 “empty of narrative substance”: Bosley Crowther, New York Times, 9/23/66.
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101 Epigraph: AI, 4/8/05.
101 “Warren said one day”: Robert Towne, “A Trip with Bonnie and Clyde, Cinema, v. 3, no. 5, Summer, 1967.
102 “Why aren’t they”: Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, New York, 2008, p. 258.
102 “the first time”: Howard Smith, “Beatty Raps,” Eye, c. 1968.
102 “they were appalled”: Geoff Boucher, “Remembering ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: Warren Beatty and Arthur Penn Recall How Their Cinematic Spree Transformed Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, 3/23/08.
102 “He was the producer” and following: “Penn on Penn,” Projections 4, p. 134.
102 “Clyde came from the South”: AI, 6/29/08.
102 “It is all detail”: Curtis Hanson, “Warren Beatty as Producer,” in Wake and Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, pp. 179, 180.
103 “By the time”: Beatty, Howard Smith, “Beatty Raps.”
103 “There’s no peaches” and following: Towne, AI, 3/3/94.
103 “There wasn’t a car”: Dede Allen, AI, 3/19/05.
103 “Warren just wrote”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
104 “Warren questioned everything”: AI, 1990.
104 “Warren would be talking”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
104 “‘Whoever gets tired’”: Quoted by Dunaway, “Making of—Documentary.”
104 “I can be obnoxious”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 246.
104 “For example, Arthur”: AI, 3/3/94.
105 “I am just beginning”: Hanson, “Warren Beatty as Producer,” p. 179.
105 “comes in with eighteen cans”: Ibid., p. 180.
105 “that film is really”: Ibid., p. 194.
105 “No, it’s just plain”: AI, 1/12/93.
105 “When Warren makes”: AI, 8/25/92.
106 “Warren was wonderful”: AI, 1990.
106 “You should not”: David Thomson, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes, New York, 1987, p. 373.
106 “Even in the SMU” and following: Philip Wuntch, “Warren’s Love Affair,” Dallas Morning News, 10/16/94.
106 “I don’t think anybody”: AI, 1990.
107 “[After every take]”: Towne, AI, 3/3/94.
107 “The first days”: Penn, AI, 1/12/93.
107 “She wouldn’t ride”: Jane Summer, “Filming of Bonnie and Clyde a Story in Itself,” The Dallas Morning News, 8/12/00.
107 “Sit down” and following: Towne, AI, 3/3/94.
107 “We need to talk about”: Beatty, Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 250.
107 “Bernie fought everything”: Dede Allen, AI, 3/20/05.
107 “I was there when”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
108 “I’d like you to”: MacLaine, unsourced.
108 “The Vietnam War”: AI, 1/12/93.
108 “There’s a lot more” and following: Richard Porton, “An Interview with Arthur Penn,” Cineaste, 12/93, v. 20, issue 2.
109 “How do you make”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 125.
109 “In the [Production] Code”: Bonnie and Clyde, DVD, “Making of—Documentary.”
109 “In those days”: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
110 “The speed of some”: Penn, AI, 6/29/05.
110 “That was one of those”: Penn, AI, 1/12/93.
110 “I told her: ‘Look’”: André Labarthe and Jean-Louis Comolli, “The Arthur Penn Interview,” in Curtis Hanson, “Arthur Penn as Director,” Cinema, v. 3, Summer 1967.
110 “There was closer”: Penn, AI, 1/12/93.
110 “When you’re very”: AI, 12/12/05.
111 “Have you ever”: AI, 3/20/05.
111 “Cut it down”: Allen, AI, 3/19/05.
111 “You had 30 seconds”: Gaylen Moore, “On the Cutting Edge of Film Editing,” New York Times, 12/14/80.
111 “Dede was the first”: AI, 5/4/05.
112 “That made it”: Allen, 3/19/05.
112 “shock cutting” and following: Moore, “On the Cutting Edge of Film Editing.”
112 “There was a lot”: AI, 3/20/05.
112 “The way he discarded”: Latham, “Warren Beatty Seriously.”
112 “Warren was wonderful”: Angela Levin, “Thank Heaven Gigi Still Can’t Stop Herself from Falling in Love Again,” London Daily Mail, 6/17/95.
112 “You’re sleeping!”: Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood, New York, 2004, p. 179.
112 “He could not pass”: Carinthia West, “The Trouble with Gigi,” Daily Telegraph, 9/2/2003.
112 “I will not tolerate”: Fiona Macdonald Hull, “Warren’s Women,” News of the World, 9/10/78.
113 “A Hollywood movie star”: AI, 6/18/97.
113 “I was always attracted”: James Delingpole, “On the Couch with Julie Christie,” Daily Telegraph, 7/12/95.
113 “I got to San Francisco”: AI, 6/18/97.
114 “‘Miz Allen,’” and following: AI, 3/19/05.
114 “I’ll tell ya something”: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
114 “Faye was wearing”: AI, 10/31/97.
115 “Don’t tell anybody”: AI, 3/19/05.
115 “September, in those days” and following: AI, 1/10/05.
115 “language made Jack Warner”: Patrick Goldstein, “Blasts from the Past,” Los Angeles Times, 8/24/97.
115 “Dick, we’ve seen” and following: Lederer, AI, 1/10/05.
116 “Interviewing Warren”: Rex Reed, “Will the Real Warren Beatty Please Shut Up,” Esquire, 8/67.
116 “Well, Warren Beatty” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
116 “I remembered they”: AI, 4/9/92.
116 “What a reaction”: AI, 6/23/92.
116 “I knew Crowther”: AI, 1/12/93.
117 “a cheap piece”: Bosley Crowther, New York Times, 8/14/67.
117 “I was scared”: AI, 6/23/92.
117 “Look, it’s just”: Benton, AI, 4/25/94.
117 “Then Crowther”: Penn, Cineaste, 12/93.
118 “Everything was different”: AI, 6/11/94.
118 “Bonnie and Clyde is”: Pauline Kael, “Bonnie and Clyde,” The New Yorker, 10/21/67.
118 “something is happening here”: Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Highway 61 Revisited.
118 “Without her, Bonnie”: AI, 11/6/97.
118 “Her review was”: AI, 2/12/94.
118 “He came on very strong”: Kael, AI, 8/5/95.
119 “It’s a piece”: Lederer, AI, 6/23/92.
119 “Let me pay you” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
119 “mosquito”: Goldstein, “Blasts from the Past.”
119 “I really think this man”: AI, 6/23/92.
119 “He was like a bulldog”: AI, 4/9/92.
119 “Warren had the studio”: Goldstein, “Blasts from the Past.”
120 “Bessant was still”: Callan, Julie Christie, p. 110.
120 “I don’t think”: Anthony Hayward, Julie Christie, Bath, 2001, p. 135.
120 “Sometimes I got”: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 147.
120 “closing the Christie”: Gerard Garrett, “The Melting Moment When Julie Christie Makes Warren (Bonnie & Clyde) Beatty,” Evening Standard, 10/22/68.
120 “He ran roughshod”: AI, 6/23/92.
120 “‘You’re the producer’”: Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred, Julie Christie: The Biography, London, 2000, p. 164.
121 “It helped start”: AI, n.d.
121 “Once the word came”: AI, 1/12/93.
121 “They were very happy” and following: AI, 6/11/94.
121 “I was discouraged”: Lederer, “AMC Backstory,” Bonnie and Clyde, 8/1/00.
122 “He said to me”: AI, 8/8/06.
122 “the best movie of the year”: Time, 12/8/67.
122 “Eliot, we have” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/11/94.
123 “The reason why”: AI, 3/19/05.
124 “gets through women”: John Schlesinger, John Schlesinger Collection, BFI, JRS/66/6, Folder H.
124 “But one can’t”: Ibid.
124 “very good for her future”: Chris Hastings, “Julie Christie Was Warned Off Warren Beatty,” Telegraph, 4/05/08.
124 “The Julie and Warren thing” and following: AI, 3/1/05.
124 “Often I didn’t feel” and following: D. Lewin, “Julie Christie at 45,” Brisbane Courier-Mail, 3/14/87.
125 “If ever a movie star”: AI, 11/6/97.
125 “You get slapped”: Beatty, AI, n.d.
125 “Julie’s smart”: AI, 3/1/05.
126 “by the time”: AI, 6/11/94.
126 “There was so much done”: AI, 4/9/92.
126 “I would be seated”: Time, 7/3/78.
126 “Beatty had no”: Luke Menand, op. cit., The New Yorker, 12/14–24/03.
127 “The idea at the time”: AI, 6/19/07.
127 “We were so fucking sure” and following: Newman, AI, 7/30/92.
128 “You know the really great thing”: Boucher, “Remembering ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’”
128 “We’re all disappointed”: Modern Screen, n.d.
128 “There were people”: AI, 12/17/92.
128 “We didn’t know”: Penn, AI, 1/12/93.
128 “The Freudian nature”: Hanson, “Warren Beatty as Producer,” in Wake and Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, pp. 179, 180.
128 “The feeling was”: Towne, AI, 3/3/94.
129 “The political message”: Jay Carr, “Dick Tracy Speaks,” Boston Globe, 6/10/90.
129 “Warren’s fundamental belief”: AI, n.d.
131 “Warhol was giving parties”: AI, 7/30/92.
133 “it was clear”: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, New York, 1973, p. 140.
133 “It was Bonnie and Clyde”: AI, 6/11/94.
133 “Warren would stay” and following: AI, 4/29/00.
134 “I have never been”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 391.
134 “thought Beatty was”: Confidential source.
134 “JFK was a very impressive figure”: AI, 11/27/99.
134 “I’m a Bobby Kennedy Democrat”: AI, 11/19/99.
134 “picking up the pieces” and following: AI, 11/29/99.
134 “I loved the way”: Tim Adams, “The Divine Miss Julie.”
135 “One night I got”: AI, 11/29/99.
135 “I met Lillian”: AI, 10/2/91.
136 “Lillian hated actors” and following: AI, 4/14/06.
136 “We were taught”: AI, 4/27/05.
136 “I was in the park”: AI, 6/28/94.
137 “You couldn’t believe” and following: AI, 12/12/05.
138 “Old women are”: AI, 5/3/05.
139 “If I went to someone”: Thomas Thompson, “Under the Gaze of the Charmer,” Life, 4/26/68.
139 “There’s one last thing” and following: Suzanna Moore, AI, 5/5/93.
139 “I’m kind of exhausted”: Howard Smith, “Beatty Raps.”
139 “People were dying”: Ronald Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter: The
Hollywood-Washington Connection, New York, 1990, p. 242.
140 “There was a wish”: AI, 6/28/94.
140 “Warren and I”: Joseph McBride, ed., “Robert Towne,” in Filmmakers on Filmmaking, vol. 2, Los Angeles, 1983, p. 76.
140 “Bob would love”: Ayres, 6/14/94.
140 “Towne could talk”: AI, 2/27/94.
