![]() ![]() "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.".Filmmakers even changed the name of the fictional Mississippi town in the movie to Sparta so they wouldn’t have to pay to have the town’s water tower repainted. Poitier did not want to shoot the film in Mississippi because he had been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan when he had visited there with Harry Belafonte at the height of the civil rights movement in 1964, so most of it was filmed in Sparta, Illinois. The only way Paramount pictures would fund Mel Gibson's passion project about the 13th century Scottish noble was if he agreed to star in it as well as direct. "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!".When Barbra Streisand quotes it, he retorts, "That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard." One of the most parodied movie lines in cinema - even Ryan O’Neal himself poked fun at it in Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?. "Love means never having to say you're sorry.". ![]()
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