Robert Duvall, who died earlier this year after a 42-year acting career, once revealed that he felt "betrayed" by the editing of the 1972 film Tomorrow, an adaptation of a William Faulkner short story written by his friend, screenwriter Horton Foote. In an interview with Movieline, Duvall explained that a pivotal emotional scene, in which his character sees his son grown up, was cut from the finished film without his knowledge, leaving him so upset that he refused to watch the film for a year.

Foote, who had previously recommended Duvall for To Kill a Mockingbird and also wrote Baby the Rain Must Fall and Of Mice and Men, was not solely blamed by Duvall, who instead reflected that he "should have known" how editing decisions worked at the time. Despite the setback, and the film barely receiving a release, Duvall later called Tomorrow a personal career highlight, saying in 2012 it contained "the most of me" in any performance. The pair went on to reunite successfully on 1983's Tender Mercies, which earned Foote an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and gave Duvall his only Academy Award, for Best Actor.