The words "mafia" and "mob" never appear in The Godfather. Coppola agreed to omit these words after meeting with the Italian-American Civil Rights League

The movie "Paranormal Activity" had a production budget of $15,000 but grossed over $193 million, making it the most profitable movie of all-time

James Cameron was so inspired by the movie Star Wars that he quit his job as a truck driver and began his career as a film maker

Francis Ford Coppola used a real horse head for the famous "horse head" scene in the Godfather after deciding the props created for the move weren't good enough to use in the movie

Yoda was modeled on the appearance of Albert Einstein

In the original draft of "Back to the Future", the time machine resembles a refrigerator. The idea was dropped due to a fear that children would imitate the movie and lock themselves in refrigerators