Did you guys witness anything during the making of the documentary American Pimp that you couldn’t show on film?

ALLEN: Ironically? The pimping—when it came to actually going down and getting the money from the girls and checking their “traps,” taking the money out of their hand, and discussing the business of pimping. I don’t know if people realize this, but in that documentary there is only one shot of a pimp taking money out of a ho’s hand. Legally, it’s a big-time felony, so we couldn’t show them pimping. So there was some sleight of hand in the filmmaking.

ALBERT: It was more like funny shit [that didn’t make it in]. One day we were playing PlayStation with a bunch of the guys, and there were maybe two girls hanging around, and one of the pimps was eating a bag of Cheetos and they kept falling on the carpet. Eventually I just said, “Are you going to clean that up?” And he said, “Aw, man, I’m going to leave that for the bitches to clean up.” It was just shit like that.

Have you seen anyone with a tattoo based on one of your movies?

ALLEN: No. I’ve seen people dressed as Dead Presidents on Halloween—and that surprises me, because that movie didn’t make $100 million.

ALBERT: I’ve never seen anyone with a tattoo, and I’m glad I haven’t. There was a really famous rapper—I won’t say his name—that I really respected back in the ’90s. Then he was in some magazine saying that his favorite movie of all time was Dead Presidents, and I instantly lost respect for him. [Laughs.] So if someone’s rolling around with a tattoo of that movie? We’ve got problems.

You guys haven’t shown much of an interest in doing big franchise movies, but just for the hell of it, what would a Hughes brothers’ Harry Potter movie be like?

ALLEN: Shitty. [Laughs.] Real real real shitty. Fairies and whatever the fuck they are. I can’t do that.

ALBERT: That shit wouldn’t even be released. Although I think sometimes what I would do with that, because it’s so corporate and it’s so big. The ironic thing is that I was a big Pippi Longstocking fan when I was a kid. And I can see myself doing a Pippi Longstocking movie. It’s laughable, but I could do it.