I am especially grateful to the filmmakers who discussed their films with me during the long period in which I was developing this project. I interviewed John Huston, Arthur Penn, and Martin Scorsese in New York, and Fritz Lang and William Wyler in Hollywood. I also talked with Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes International Film Festival.
I would also like to mention the staffs of the Film Study Center of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California; the Motion Picture Section of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; and the Special Collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Some material in this book previously appeared in a completely different form in the following publications: “Faulkner and the Film,” Literature/Film Quarterly 1, no. 3 (Summer 1973): 263–73, copyright 1973, by Salisbury University; “Fritz Lang Remembers,” Focus on Film (London) 5, no. 2 (Spring 1975): 43–51; “William Wyler,” Focus on Film (London) 5, no. 2 (Spring 1976): 5–10; Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1999), copyright 1999, by Associated University Presses; Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004), copyright 2004, by University of Kentucky Press.