 In a book about the making of the film, producer Giler, David (qv)  said that he came to the set one day to find out why filming was so  far behind schedule and discovered that the entire cast and crew had  been kept sitting around most of the day (on full salary) while  director Sarne, Michael (qv) photographed a cake... for eight  hours. He was also told by cast and crewmembers that Sarne would go  off in a corner and "think" for six to seven hours at a stretch,  during which time shooting would come to a standstill. According to  Giler, such antics were one of the reasons the film went so far over  budget, and he and the other producers demanded that the studio fire  him, but it was in Sarnes contract that he could not be fired until  he turned in the first cut.