15 Movie Details That Came From The Director’s Life
Write what you know, they say.
![15 Movie Details That Came From The Director’s Life](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/3/760183_320x180.jpg)
Movie directors are just like us, it turns out: they want to leave a tiny fingerprint on their movie, kind of like we all did on our Play-Doh as toddlers. We’ve gathered 15 examples of those fingerprints for your enjoyment and, potentially, bewilderment.
![Waban brake fluid in Death Wish is Eli Roth's personal shout-out. waban His brothers were arrested for breakdancing in a place named Wabans, and he pu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/1/760151.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Tim Burton wrote the note that the Joker gives to Vicki Vale along with the gas mask in Batman. this oN Put now right That's my handwriting, he said](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/9/760149.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![John Boorman's son is the kid in Ed's wallet photo in Deliverance.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/0/760150.jpg)
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![Moonlight's penis comparison scene actually happened to Barry Jenkins in middle school. I think there's something very universal about the way boys g](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/8/760148.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![That's James Gunn's own dog in the Guardians of the Galaxy hologram on Morag. His name is Dr. Wesley Von Spears.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/7/760147.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The mask that the Exterminators wear in Zardoz was based on John Boorman's face. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/6/760146.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The Shake Weight that Skurge uses in Thor: Ragnarok is Taika Waititi's. One night, when Waititi was in his hotel room for the Green Lantern shoot with](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/5/760145.jpg)
Source: CinemaBlend
![James Cameron made the drawing of Rose in Titanic (and those are his hands in the shot). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/3/760143.jpg)
![The river god scene in Spirited Away basically came from Hayao Miyazaki's own life. When they cleaned out a river near where he lives, they found a bi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/4/760144.jpg)
Source: Midnight Eye
![The apartment that Tom Cruise's and Nicole Kidman's characters live in Eyes Wide Shut used to be Stanley Kubrick's. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/2/760142.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![They filmed James Gunn as the motion reference for Baby Groot's dance in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Somewhere in a secret vault there is me doing all](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/1/760141.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Ivan Reitman's son Jason is the boy saying that the Ghostbusters are full of S#&! in Ghostbusters 2.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/0/760140.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Vincent Vega's car in Pulp Fiction, a 1964 red Chevy Malibu, was actually Quentin Tarantino's car. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/3/9/760139.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
![Michael Bay had actually said the line Wow, that tongue thing is amazing, from The Island. The first girl who ever French kissed him got to hear tha](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/3/8/760138.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The home in Mission: Impossible 3s party scene was heavily based on J.J. Abrams' own home. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/3/760153.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects