In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

The film's screenwriter, C. Gardner Sullivan, said he received the inspiration for the film on Easter Sunday morning in 1915.

Of the elements that he added to Klaatu's character, screenwriter Edmund North said, " It was my private little joke.

" It was very peaceful ," said Dennis Osborne, a screenwriter friend who had cared for the actor in his final months.

As a result of this film, Rand said that she would never sell any of her novels to a film company that did not allow her the right to pick the director and screenwriter as well as edit the film, as she did not want to encounter the same production problems that occurred on this film.

In an interview with Fellini's screenwriter Ennio Flaiano, he said the name came from the Italian translation based on a 1901 southern Italy travel narrative by Victorian writer George Gissing, By the Ionian Sea.

Director and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson said that the " two most brilliant men he has ever known were George S. Kaufman and Herman Mankiewicz, and that Mankiewicz was the more brilliant of the two.

Ray later said, " I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy ( screenwriter Andrew Solt ) and I had written.

The film's screenwriter, Frank Pierson, said " the film had been cast with many of the actors that Al Pacino had worked with in New York, including John Cazale, who was a close friend and collaborator in The Godfather.

William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ) said that watching Exorcist: The Beginning was his " most humiliating professional experience.

James Gunn, the screenwriter of the Scooby-Doo film, said that he was " pretty sure she's gay.

In Marshall Fine's book Bloody Sam, screenwriter Sharp said that he himself did not like the screenplay he had written, and that he found it incredible that Davis and Panzer used his draft as the shooting script.

When screenwriter Andrew Davies met with some American women from the Republic of Pemberley, he said " They were all most insistent on the point that it is unresolved sexual tension that makes for a romantic drama.

* Hampton Fancher ( original screenwriter ) has said that he wrote the character Deckard as a human, but wanted the film to suggest the possibility that he may be a replicant.

She is a gifted screenwriter, as said by Sam Sharpe.

Even after he brought in his most trusted screenwriter Frank Nugent — the man responsible for The Searchers and nine other Ford classics — to fix the script, the director said it was " still crap.

Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.

Helen Clark said that the Fijian constitution only allowed the President to request the dissolving of Parliament if the Prime Minister no longer had the confidence of the Parliament and that this was clearly not the case.

Helen Clark has said in the NZ Herald that she would consider sanctions against Fiji.

These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone ( by Demeter ), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses ( by Mnemosyne ); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

In most accounts of this event, Helen was quite young ; Hellanicus of Lesbos said she was seven years old and Diodorus makes her ten years old.

On the other hand, Stesichorus said that Iphigeneia was the daughter of Theseus and Helen, which obviously implies that Helen was of childbearing age.

Corythus was also said to have been, instead, the son of Helen and Paris.

In the Iliad, Achilles loves Briseis ( and Briseis was said to love him back ), comparing their relationship with that of man and wife ( he refers to her as his bride and wife often ) and explicitly to that of Menelaus and Helen, which was, after all, what the war is about.

She is said to have ordered the making of Sarn Helen, the great Roman road running from Caernarfon to south Wales via Dolgellau, Pennal and Bremia ( Llanddewi Brefi ).

The interviewer, restaurant critic Helen Lucy Burke, said, " I found some of his views on sexual matters deeply disturbing-notably on sex with minors ".

Pilot Rank, however, told a different story: Rank said that he was checking on the passengers when he noticed smoke in the middle of the cabin, where Rick Nelson and Helen Blair were sitting.

It is said to have been founded by the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great ( ruled 306 – 337 AD ), Saint Helen, during her pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Paley said, " Helen was always talking about craftsmanship — a constant fount of information ".

De Bont said, " I love Helen to death, but you know, she can be also a little bit clumsy.

In response, Helen Clark said that the Governor-General followed a " very, very proper process ".

* Notice of extension of term ( govt. nz ) (" Prime Minister Helen Clark said The Queen had agreed to extend the Governor-General's term until 4 August 2006.

Poe biographer John H. Ingram wrote to Sarah Helen Whitman that someone named " Allen " said that Poe worked " in the brickyard ' late in the fall of 1834 '".

At first, the cell line was said to be named after a " Helen Lane " or " Helen Larson ", in order to preserve Lacks's anonymity.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " It's the kind of sweet, good-humored comedy that used to star Margaret Rutherford, although Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, its daring top-liners, would have curled Dame Margaret's eyebrows ... That the movie works, and it does, is mostly because of the charm of Mirren and Walters, who show their characters having so much fun that it becomes infectious.

The company said, " Helen was one of the world ’ s most recognized magazine editors and book authors, and a true pioneer for women in journalism — and beyond.

During each call, the callers would ask Deutsch to call out fictitious names, which, when said aloud, sounded like something else entirely ( for example, " Al Coholic " = alcoholic, " Ben Dover "

At the time of making the film Un aller simple directed by Laurent Heynemann – a film about integration and racism and the clash of generations – he said that watching the young actors in the film, Barbara Schulz and Lorant Deutsch, reminded him of the insouciance he had had as a young man with his friends at the Conservatoire.

The character of barkeeper Moe Szyslak on television's The Simpsons is said to be based on Deutsch.