Michael Paré: …Rick Moranis drove me out of my mind. There’s this whole wave of insult comedy. In the real world, if someone insults you a couple of times, you can smack them. Or punch them. You can’t do that on a movie set. And these comedians walk around, and they can say whatever they want. I’m just not that handy with that. Comedians are a special breed. They can antagonize you and say whatever they f—king want, and you can’t do anything to stop them.
Jeremy Smith: All you can do is laugh it off.

M Paré: It’s one thing once in a while, but, you know, you’re with the guy every day. All f—king day. He’s this weird looking little guy who couldn’t get laid in a whore house with a fistful of fifties.

He would imitate me. The first thing he says to me is, “Do you just act cool, or are you really cool?” That was the first sentence out of his mouth to me in Joel Silver’s office. And I was like, “Oh f—k, this is not going to go well.” But he was one of Joel’s dear friends, and he ended up making a bunch of movies for Disney. I just wasn’t that sharp. I wasn’t ready for that kind of cr—p.
J Smith: But I think that worked for your character [in Streets of Fire]. Cody looks like he really wants to tear the guy’s head off the entire movie.
Paré: Yeah, but why wouldn’t I?

What I wanted to do was just hit him once and let him go through the whole movie like Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. I wouldn’t have to hit him ever again. Just “Shut the f—k up” and boom! He would then know that was a possibility, and it would’ve brought his attitude towards me down a little.