(carl franklin) we wanted to somehow break the genre.l hollywood crime. slow down, ray. don't panic. he recognized me back there, man, i know he did. if he recognized you, he'd arrest you in the store. he was just looking us over. white boy and a nigger girl in texas, that's all it is. (carl franklin) the characters weren't all good or all bad, they were flawed. i'm going to pull 'em over. and with that principle kind of established that this was a world where people had good and bad sides and where evil was not as clearly defined or as simple as it normally is in a hollywood film, that created a lot of room to interpret and to do a lot of human inner-character work. y'all want some rolls? (carl franklin) the fact that race was not the foremost issue in the film was in the writing, but it also coincided with my own view of racial problems that we have in the world. i hope to hell he does show his heinie up there, that piece of white trash and them two niggers are -- ow, shirley, you nearly broke my -- arnie, pass me them pickles, will yo