I could direct it and steer it, but I just wanted to see what comes of that.

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?’Will and Grace’ and ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ have softened us up with regards to the funny gay character. ?’Well, all right, he’s gay, but they’re so funny, those gays.’ And I thought, that doesn’t...

[Bang, Bang takes cheery aim at movie clich ”©s while unraveling a murder mystery.] I stuffed in the kitchen sink because I was pent-up, … That way if you don’t like one joke, here’s this...

Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

I felt like we were taking a bit of a chance, … Val has his own reputation, but as soon as we got going I was like, ‘Why didn’t anyone think of teaming these guys...

[Along with the Silver and Gibson connections is] Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang … Lethal Weapon.

There was a book shelf in our living room with books that were left on it by my dad who was a big tough guy fan. So you would find your Mickey Spillane there. So...

Don’t worry. I saw ‘Lord of the Rings’; I’m not gonna have the movie end 20 times.

Depending on how much you like these guys, you may want to take another trip with them. It’s certainly fun to write about these characters.

He’s not Mel Gibson, he’s not Val Kilmer, and he’s certainly not Damon Wayans. He’s actually the cool-headed one.

Having a character be gay in a movie just isn’t shocking anymore,

It wasn’t that the film’s failure allowed people to snicker behind my back, because, yes, it had been a record script sale and became a record bomb, … What bothered me the most was that...

With Val and Robert in the roles, the great thing was I didn’t know what that was even going to look like,

Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I’d be like, ‘Hey, that’s exactly what I had in mind,’