Antz Pixar's features. Woody Allen was cast in the lead role of Z, and much of Allen's trademark humor is present within the film. Allen himself made some uncredited rewrites to the script, to make the dialogue better fit his style of comedic timing. An altered line from one of his early directed films, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" was included – "I was going to include you in my most erotic fantasies..." After DreamWorks' acquisition of PDI, Pixar director John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and others at Pixar were dismayed to learn from
Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play partly due to both the increasing length and complex nature of the material. "2112" had been a surprise success in 1976, but still had not received much airplay. The band were working on a fifth studio album to be released later in 1977, so presumably the compilation was intended to promote some of the more radio-friendly tracks from the albums in between. Incidentally, the album's back cover has a blurb from "Circus" magazine with the headline "'Closer To The Heart' Will Be The Group's Sixth LP". Though no rare material is included, two songs were excerpts from their corresponding full-length