What do you think about the latest batch of stoner films — Pineapple Express, Harold & Kumar?
I read some reviews about Pineapple Express and one was very interesting. They said these movies, including ours, are an experience. It’s like a contact high. If you look at all the Cheech and Chong movies, no one ever got hurt, no one ever got killed — the most you ever got was high. Something else you wrote is that you think it’s harder now to produce these kind of movies. Why do you think that is? Nowadays, with Seth [Rogen] and those guys, they have directors, you know, and writers, a lot of people writing, and they’ve got money and a lot of intelligence and energy. Cheech and I, we lucked into this. The only thing I would do that these guys do, and I would definitely do next time we do a movie is rehearse. Cheech and I never used to rehearse, especially movies, you know. And you can see it. In Still Smoking, you can see first takes. Everything was first takes. [Laughs] We never got really comfortable and, all of a sudden, we’re onto the next because I wanted to capture that rawnes
