They made some very good movies together.
Richard talked when he and Gene were filming Stir Crazy and went to the Arizona State Penitentiary to prepare for filming....
Gene Wilder loved to jump in the middle of the killers and start talkin’, “Hi guys! How ya doin’?”
I said, “Gene, bring your ass out.”
“What do you think they’d do to us if we were here, Rich?”
I said, “F___ us.”
And Gene said, “I’m not homosexual.”
“Homosexual ain’t got nothin’ to do with it. They don’t ___ you ‘cause you like it. They just ___ you just to see that look on your face.”