>>Famously, Tony Kaye took his name off the credits because the studio made him change the last shot. if you have seen the last shot as he made it you'd know why.<< Umm...it was not just the change of the final scene of American History X that prompted Kaye to try to remove his name. The big problem he had was Edward Norton's involvement in the whole re-edit, which, surprise surprise resulted in lots more Norton screen time. Kaye tried unsuccessfully to pull an Alan Smithee, the DGA wouldn't let him cause he slagged off the film prior to release, a big taboo in the US, so he then tried to use his own pseudonym Humpty Dumpty. He even took a Rabbi and a Tibetan Monk into negotiations with the producers. Kaye is a proper nutter but at the same time probably the best commercial director there?s been, in commercials you can be nuts in fact it's positively encouraged, and you get massively indulged, he regularly shot more footage for a commercial than would normally be shot for a 2 hour feature. But in Hollywood you've got to tow the line and behave. There are many, many Tony Kaye stories, after X he filmed some acting workshops in L.A that involved him, Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson and De Caprio but Kaye turned up dressed as Osama Bin Laden and pissed everyone off, this was a month after 9/11.