March 28, 2004 11:43 AM Interview with Kevin Smith

“O.K., So It’s Not His Funniest Film,” is an interview with Kevin Smith, the man Dave loves to hate. There are a bunch of funny quotes, I liked the following:

CURTIS A lot of people think of you as somebody running away from the conventions of genre films. But you don’t see yourself as that.

SMITH Not at all. When I look at “Clerks,” I don’t think of it as, “This runs away from the genre conventions.” I look at it as, “Well, we didn’t have any money.”

And this one, which I read at Signal to Noise first:

CURTIS You made a controversial movie about Catholicism, “Dogma.” What did you think about “The Passion of the Christ”?

SMITH I haven’t seen it yet. I think it’s funny, though, that people bring it up and ask me, “What do you think of the controversy?” I’m like, “What controversy?” The dude made a movie about Jesus in a country that’s largely Christian — a very traditional movie — and it’s made over $200 million in two weeks. There ain’t no controversy, people. That’s a hit. They took one or two Jewish leaders in the beginning and said, “This may be construed as anti-Semitic,” and then spun it into a must-see movie for hard-core Christians. You’ve got to go see it if you love Jesus. I wish to God I had thought to do that when I was making “Dogma.”

Comments on Interview with Kevin Smith

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[Posted by Stacy on March 28, 2004 01:47 PM]

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