“I was delighted to be asked to work with Polanski, and I turned down a Bond movie to make Repulsion. [...] Roman had only made one feature, Knife in the Water [1962], which I thought looked absolutely dreadful. It was very wishy-washy, no real blacks at all. So when he saw the kind of image I could give him, he was impressed. He said, "I never knew you could get photography like this!"”