According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to David Robinson, this also had an effect on the quality of the film.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

* According to director Dennis Gansel his film Wir Sind Die Nacht is his personal take on Carmilla.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

* According to Walter Murch, when it comes to film editing, there are six main criteria for evaluating a cut or deciding where to cut.

According to a UK Film Council press release of 20 January 2011, £ 1. 115 billion was spent on UK film production during 2010.

According to Truffaut's theory, auteurs took material that was beneath their talents — a thriller, a pulpy action film, a romance — and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

According to some historians, the film was made to convey a " deliberate reaffirmation of American values ", although ones which seemed uncertain with respect to the future.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

According to Teruyoshi Nakano, the Godzilla suit made for this film ( known as the Megaro-Goji ) was made in a week, the fastest featured Godzilla suit ever made to date.

According to Kelly: "... when you are involved in doing choreography for film you must have expert assistants.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

According to the Daily Express of April 24, 1934, Leni Riefenstahl had read Mein Kampf during the making of her film The Blue Light.

According to film critic Pauline Kael, " Brando represented a reaction against the post-war mania for security.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to Spitzer, “ He ( Abu Daoud ) didn't pay the price for what he did .” In 2006 during the release of Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, Der Spiegel interviewed Abu Daoud regarding the Munich massacre.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

According to rock critic Dave Marsh, the attitude and public persona of punk rock can be traced to Jan and Dean.

According to critic Greil Marcus, the band, led by singer Iggy Pop, created " the sound of Chuck Berry's Airmobile — after thieves stripped it for parts ".

According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and " longing for concision and grace ".

" According to critic George Morris, " it synthesizes every major Edwards theme: the disappearance of gallantry and honor, the tension between appearances and reality and the emotional, spiritual, moral, and psychological disorder " in such a world.

According to art critic James Gardner of the National Review, Viola's conceptual work is forgettable just like most video art.

According to the critic Terry Teachout, they are " the two most influential figures in the early history of jazz " and " the twin lines of descent from which most of today's jazz can be traced.

According to a critic whose ideas greatly influenced them, John Ruskin:

According to critic Edmund Wilson, Sherman

According to Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Stein was a lifelong Republican and vocal critic of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal.

According to critic David Ehrenstein, the term " Creative Accounting " was first used in 1968 in the film The Producers by Mel Brooks.

According to this reading, Egypt is viewed as destructive and vulgar ; the critic Paul Lawrence Rose writes: “ Shakespeare clearly envisages Egypt as a political hell for the subject, where natural rights count for nothing .” Through the lens of such a reading, the ascendancy of Rome over Egypt does not speak to the practice of empire-building as much as it suggests the inevitable advantage of reason over sensuality.

According to art critic Michael Kimmelman, " Busoni shuffled the variations, skipping some, then added his own rather voluptuous coda to create a three-movement structure ; each movement has a distinct, arcing shape, and the whole becomes a more tightly organized drama than the original.

According to film critic Kim Newman, Enemy of the State could be construed as a " continuation of The Conversation.

According to one literary critic, the book " remains one of the most compelling and appalling autobiographies written by a Hollywood star, or anyone else for that matter ".

" According to libertarian critic James Bovard, " The more aggressive HUD becomes, the fewer free speech rights Americans have.

According to one scholar, this " was not only a dramatic change in the function of art, it was the context in which our present concept of art, what the literary critic M. H. Abrams called " art as such ", first began to take shape ", replacing a " construction model " where art theory concerned itself with how the maker created his work, with a " contemplation model " concerned with the effect of the finished work on a " lone perceiver " or viewer.

* According to critic David Ehrenstein, the film marked the first use of the term " Creative Accounting.

According to the late-20th century critic James Guimond in his book on American photography,

According to former Immanuel Velikovsky assistant turned prolific critic, C. Leroy Ellenberger, " states that from an equal start, the Nefilim evolved on Nibiru 45 million years ahead of comparable development on Earth with its decidedly more favorable environment.

According to critic Galen Strickland, " Spinrad has never taken the easy course of artistic repetition, nor tailored his thoughts to the dictates of any editor.

According to the art critic Harold Rosenberg in the 1940s and 1950s Action Painting gave artists the freedom to perform-the canvas as " an arena in which to act ", thereby rendering the paintings as traces of the artist's performance in his / her studio.

According to sf historian and critic Mike Ashley, its success was the main reason for a subsequent flood of new releases: 22 more science fiction magazines appeared by 1954, when the market dipped again as a side effect of US Senate hearings into the putative connection between comic books and juvenile delinquency.