567 
 
Biskind, Easy Riders, 243.
  568 
 
COGL, 6, 70.
  569 
 
Biskind, Easy Riders, 243.
  570 
 
Creating an Empire.
  571 
 
Biskind, Easy Riders, 243.
  572 
 
Ibid., 244.
  573 
 
See Lillian Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy”, The New Yorker, November 8, 1982.
  574 
 
Biskind, Easy Riders, 244.
  575 
 
COGL, 71.
  576 
 
Biskind, Easy Riders, 244.
  577 
 
Pollock, Skywalking, 120.
  578 
 
Kline, GL Interviews, 43.
  579 
 
“A Legacy of Filmmakers”.
  580 
 
Kline, GL Interviews, 77.
  581 
 
“Wendy Lucas Comments on American Graffiti, the State Theatre, Modesto, May 31, 2008”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEwUOR0kkE.
  582 
 
Kline, GL Interviews, 77–78.
  583 
 
Ibid., 77.
  584 
 
Pollock, Skywalking, 123.
  585 
 
Jay Cocks, “Cinema: Fabulous ’50s”, Time, August 20, 1973.
  586 
 
Gary Arnold, “Cruising through ‘American Graffiti’: Hot Rods, Good Times and Longings”, Washington Post, August 31, 1973.
  587 
 
Charles Champlin, “A New Generation Looks Back in ‘Graffiti’”, Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1973.
  588 
 
Stephen Farber, “‘Graffiti’ Ranks with ‘Bonnie and Clyde’”, New York Times, August 5, 1973.
  589 
 
Kline, GL Interviews, 21.
  590 
 
Peter Hartlaub, “The Chronicle Panned It: ‘American Graffiti’”, SF Gate, February 4, 2015.
  591 
 
Ibid.
  592 
 
See Gene Siskel, “Graffiti – How Many Golden Oldies Can You Handle?” Chicago Tribune, August 24, 1973.
  593 
 
Farber, “‘Graffiti’ Ranks with ‘Bonnie and Clyde’”; Klemesrud, “‘Graffiti’ Is the Story of His Life”.
  594 
 
Cocks, “Cinema: Fabulous ’50s”.
  595 
 
Arnold, Once Upon a Galaxy.
  596 
 
Klemesrud, “‘Graffiti’ Is the Story of His Life”.
  597 
 
Ibid.
  598 
 
Ibid.; Paul Gardner, “‘Graffiti’ Reflects Its Director’s Youth”, New York Times, September 19, 1973.
  599 
 
Creating an Empire.
  600 
 
Во время переговоров о приобретении прав для использования песен в самом фильме Лукас пытался уговорить «Юниверсал» выделить деньги и на покупку прав на альбом с саундтреком фильма. Если бы «Юниверсал» купила права на саундтрек тогда, это бы сохранило ей миллионы, которые она заплатила за него позднее, когда фильм стал успешным.