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1. President Ronald Reagan quoted the film in his 1986 State of the Union speech saying, "never has there been a more exciting time to be alive — a time of rousing wonder and heroic achievement. As they said in the film Back To The Future, 'where we're going, we don't need roads.'"
2. When President Reagan saw the scene where Doc Brown laughs in disbelief over Marty McFly informing him that Ronald Reagan "the actor" was president in 1985 he enjoyed it so much that he asked the projectionist to replay it.
3. Huey Lewis, who provided "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" to the film's soundtrack, is the judge in the battle of the bands scene who tells McFly that his music is "too darn loud."
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4. John DeLorean sent a fan letter to writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis thanking them for "keeping my dream alive" by using his car in the movies.
5. Universal Studio's head Sid Sheinberg didn't like the title because he didn't think anyone would watch a film with the word "future" in the title and wanted it changed to "Spaceman From Pluto."
6. However Sheinberg had some great ideas as well — he was responsible for changing "Professor" Brown to "Doc" Brown and vetoing Brown having a chimpanzee as a pet in favor of a dog. He claimed, "You have to get rid of that chimp because no one's going to see a film with a chimp in it."
7. There is a sticker on Doc Brown's truck that says, "One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. "
