“?'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 really cut it. We still haven't seen the heroic gay character that, when the chips are down, kicks down the door, shoots everybody and saves your butt.”
“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 I'm literally a nine year old kid reading Mickey Spillane and my father is very upset because of the dirty parts you know. The naked parts.”
“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 nobody was referring in any way to the creative work I was trying to do.”
