Urban legend holds that the early Tarantino film, My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) lost several reels in a lab fire. Collaborator Roger Avary sets the record straight: "The rest of 'My Best Friend's Birthday' wasn't lost in a lab fire. We just never finished it due to running out of steam. However, the footage from another film that Quentin starred in circa 1986, Lovebirds in Bondage, was ritually burned by the director, Scott Magill, who was embarrassed by the outcome, which included a wince-inducing Tarantino sex scene."