The Sentinels ' height wasn't specified, but the sketches indicated that although their appearance was not severely altered, the film version had the ability to compact itself into a rolling saucer as a mode of transportation.

However, Muni himself was " inflexible on matters of taste and principle ", once turning down an $ 800, 000 movie contract because he wasn't happy with the studio's choice of film roles.

Although the film wasn't financially successful, it was met with relatively positive reviews from film critics, and has been argued by animation historians and fans as the finest original feature-length appearance for the cartoon characters.

" George Lucas, however, has denied a connection, saying: " In the 1977 film, I was working very hard to create something different that wasn't fashion, so I went with a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look, which is what that is.

He co-wrote Ripping Yarns with Palin, and wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth ( 1986 ), although his draft went through several rewrites and several other writers before being filmed ; much of the finished film wasn't written by Jones at all.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

The film, a war picture, was rewritten to accommodate Clara Bow, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

Altman had been approached to work on a film set in Nashville which he wasn't interested in.

" But the depiction of thousands of sick and dying people seemed rather gruesome for our light-hearted film, and the thought of our crew taking a 600-year round trip just to bring back a snail darter wasn't all that thrilling ," explained Nimoy.

The trivia track on the 2010 edition contains some errors, such as a statement that some of the dancers featured in the film were recruited from the XFL football league cheerleaders, an impossibility as the XFL wasn't formed until 2000.

Horner harshly criticised both Yared's score and Yared personally, calling the score " atrocious ", and saying " And it wasn't because Gabriel's not a gifted writer, it's because he just doesn't have any knowledge of writing film scores.

When Kahn and Spielberg completed the first cut of the film, Spielberg was dissatisfied, feeling " there wasn't enough wow-ness ".

Through most of the filming and production, this was to be the outcome ; it wasn't until the film was nearing completion that Stallone decided against Rocky's death and went with the current ending.

As O ' Toole remarked in a DVD audio commentary, " The film wasn't released, it escaped.

The Butterfield band played at the Woodstock Festival, although their performance wasn't included in the resulting Woodstock film.

Another memo said " it would be nice if OSI could arrange to secure a copy of the film in some covert manner ," but if that wasn't feasible, one of the Air Force scientists might have to negotiate directly with the newspaper.

In 2007, Downey was cast as the title character in the film Iron Man, with director Jon Favreau explaining the choice by stating: " Downey wasn't the most obvious choice, but he understood what makes the character tick.

She co-starred in the film Dodsworth ( 1936 ), for Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists, which is widely regarded as her finest film ( giving what many consider an Oscar worthy performance, though she wasn't nominated ).

However, that fact " has clearly and adversely affected the discussion of the film ", referring to the fact that the script of Caligari wasn't rediscovered until 1977 and that Kracauer hadn't seen the film for around 20 years when he wrote the work.

He wasn't so sure about the boy.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

She'd be smart about it, get him to give it to her in little bills so's nobody would suspect -- maybe couldn't get it until Monday account of that, the banks -- But that wasn't really long to wait.

It wasn't a new boat, about five years old, but fitted with fishing outriggers and chairs.

Maybe her ravenous eating wasn't grotesque because she was so positive about it.

" Pearson, however, said that grindcore " wasn't just about the speed of drums, blast beats, etc.

' Richly flavored in melodies, sounds, styles and emotions, ' Forever Changes ' is lasting testament to the creative fury of the ' 60s, when rock wasn't about marketing, image or career paths, and only the music really mattered.

I wasn't at all confident about handling a dramatic role, and every day he helped me in all kinds of little ways.

" I can laugh about the play now, but it wasn't funny at the time ," McIntyre said after the game.

Information about the instantaneous frequency ( as distinct from spectral characteristic ) of the original voice signal is discarded ; it wasn't important to preserve this for the purposes of the vocoder's original use as an encryption aid, and it is this " dehumanizing " quality of the vocoding process that has made it useful in creating special voice effects in popular music and audio entertainment.

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

I wasn't concerned about that.

I was crazy about her, and I don't know anyone who wasn't ".

And the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar wasn't about to give up his colonies as easily as the British and French had given up theirs.

Slayton would later express doubts about See's flying ability, claiming that See flew too slowly and " wasn't aggressive enough.

Although the statute wasn't specific about whether it was legal for a defendant to read his statement, Spicer allowed his testimony to proceed.

It wasn't until 1985 that Australia's first geostationary communications satellite was operational ; by late 1990 it had debts of about $ 400 million.

Mae is upset about this as he says he was " just having a good time " and wasn't serious.

" Thrasher also stated that " When I drew up the cartoon, I wasn't thinking about Marc Lepine the École Polytechnique massacre | Montreal massacre < nowiki ></ nowiki > which was a crime against humanity, I think, more than a crime against women.

I would audition for things and I'd always be the second choice – studios never wanted to hire me and I wasn't losing the parts to big box office actresses but to ones who I guess people felt differently about.

" She also spoke about June Carter Cash, stating that she believed Carter Cash was a woman ahead of her time: " I think the really remarkable thing about her character is that she did all of these things that we sort of see as normal things in the 1950s when it wasn't really acceptable for a woman to be married and divorced twice and have two different children by two different husbands and travel around in a car full of very famous musicians all by herself.