Tom Berenger admitted in an interview that he had nightmares after he was finished shooting all of his scenes as Gary.
In order to get artistic control and creative freedom, director Richard Brooks took the minimum scale director's fee plus a percentage for directing the picture.
Actress Diane Keaton's contract explicitly prohibited the manufacture of any production photograph stills from any "sexually suggestive" frames from the film's print.
Documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark was hired to take pictures of the bars that play during the opening credits. The director rejected the photos as "too realistic."