WM: Yes.

MD: Well, I send them scoops a lot, and I get so many of them from you I figured I’d take this opportunity to ask you what you think of Kevin, since I get the impression you are a big fan.

WM: Of course I’m into Kevin, how can you not be into him? He’s great. You can’t not like Kevin Smith

MD: What’s your favorite movie?

WM: Clerks.

MD: Have you ever met him? If you could interview him what would you ask?

WM: I was just thinking about that. I don’t think I’ve ever met him, I’ve seen him speak, at the Q&A’s, and the Evening with Kevin Smith stuff. He’s someone who is interveiwed all the time, and he’s asked everything. So it would be difficult. The questions that he gets asked all the time are so specific- it would be tough.

One thing I love is that he does perservere, He just keeps making work and doesn’t care what the reviewers say and keeps working with the people he likes and I really admire that in him.

MD: He’s true to who he is. He takes something that he finds funny and just goes with it.

MD: Do you find yourself quoting him in daily life? My husband and I are always saying “37!” “In a row?”

WM: I don’t think I have a Kevin Smith quote that I repeat. Maybe I should get one…

MD: Yeah, just go through and find one that only people who know the movies will know just how dirty what you are saying is

We also talked about Reaper, Red State, Zach and Miri Make a Porno, his blogs and the Smodcasts, and the irony that Jen and he met when she was working for USA Today. It was a really fun little conversation just geeking out about a film-maker we admire.

The BHD remake is actually kinda serious. It’s the same plot, but with a 40 million dollar budget, and it definitely loses the sketch comedy aspect and concentrates more on the dramatic aspects of the plot.

We still have the opening involving the little boy with cancer, but it’s played straight. It’s a great thing when the movie itself heals the little bit, less so when it turns out to be a fraud. We see the highs and lows the director goes through, thinking he created something so supernaturally awesome and it turns out he didn’t. I think it’s going to be quite soul-crushing, in a good way.

As for the rest of the movie, it also annoyed me when I watched it and all this serious stuff: suicide, satan worshipping, racism, homophobia, was played for laughs. So the new version will, without a doubt, tackle all those subjects but do it in a way that will make you think AND bring a tear to your eye.

Michael Black is not back. I thought he was too goofy. We were lucky enough to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins for that role. Only had him for a day, but man is his stuff powerful.”