Gene Wilder as Skip Donahue about Grossberger— Stir Crazy (1980) -
“I wonder what triggered all that violence? He seems so gentle. I see what it is. Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that man.”
Reminds me of Richard Pryor talking about visiting the Arizona State Penitentiary while filming "Stir Crazy":
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 say, "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."