“… I may not always get hired by studios and shit, but I can self-generate. I mean, that was one of the reasons I found it easy to kind of go forward with A COUPLE OF DICKS, because somebody said to me…It was a brilliant piece of advice. I was just, like, “I don’t know, man, direct somebody else’s script. That seems weird.” And, they were, like, “Well, Kevin, you can always make a Kevin Smith movie. You can’t not make a Kevin Smith movie. You can do that anytime you want. Why not go try make somebody else’s flick? See how that feels.” And, I was, like, “You’re right! I could go away for a thousand years and come back and write a Kevin Smith movie in my sleep. You know why? I’m fuckin’ Kevin Smith.” [Laughs] I have no choice, dude. That’s all I can do.

So, it’s there. It’s always going to be there. I’m not connected to the material I used to write anymore. Not in the way where I’m like Leonard Nimoy, “I am not Spock” and shit like that. It’s just I can’t do it anymore. And, if I do it, it’s disingenuous, and you’re going to smell it. And, people have been smelling it for a few years. Look, my favorite work that I’ve done of everything thus far is CLERKS II. And, that turns a lot of people off, because they’re, like, “Well, clearly, he’s an idiot, if you think that.” But, that movie meant the most to me. And, that one was the bellwether. Watch that movie, and tell me that this didn’t predict the end, you know. It was just me sittin’ there, going, like, “These guys are growin’ up, guys. They don’t have much left for the world of fuckin’ ‘Who shot first? Greedo or fuckin’ Han Solo?’ because it’s just…they’re not in their 20s anymore.” So, it was kind of a way of slowly saying good-bye to that which gave me everything I have.”

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“… RED STATE is a real mind-fuck, man. RED STATE is the flick that, if executed properly, the fuckers on Ain’t It Cool News talkbacks that don’t like me, would be, like, “FINALLY, he learned how to make a film.” You know, it’s just that fuckin’ obscure and not user-friendly. It’s a garage-band movie, man. And, like, they would be embraced by people who were, like, “I like the disturbing and inane kind of thing.” Goth kids are gonna totally dig it. Or, though, they probably won’t. I don’t even know if Goth kids will. I don’t know who’ll dig it, but there’s a small audience for it. But, that’s my favorite unproduced screenplay right now, by virtue of the fact that I didn’t write HIT SOMEBODY yet.”

Congrats to interviewer Capone and of course to Kevin for this fantastic piece of press. Make it a point to read both Part One and Part Two in full. We promise you, it’s one of the best you’ll ever read.