Kevin Smith on pot: 'It takes me places, magical journeys'

Writer/director Kevin Smith on how marijuana helped him through a difficult creative period:

Smith realized he needed to grow up after Zack and Miri Make a Porno underperformed last year. "I was like, 'I can't show my face on the Internet ever again'," Smith says. "I'm done." He got by with a little help from his friend Seth Rogen. "Seth is a pretty big stoner," Smith says. "Suddenly I had a vice. It takes me places, magical journeys. I swear I've never done more writing than when I've been smoking weed for the last six months."

Of course, "more" writing is not equivalent to "better" writing, but still. Everybody digs a nice magical journey now and again.

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Posted By Scotto at 2009-08-12 20:47:29 permalink | comments

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Potter Dee. : 2009-08-14 08:09:11

Wait, he's claiming he was SOBER while making all those terrible movies?

Crawford Tillinghast. : 2009-08-13 14:36:58

I've been an unabashed Kevin Smith whore since the opening weekend of Clerks in 1994 (saw it twice in two days and was baked to the gills both times).

Guess what goes around comes around, eh?

guest : 2009-08-13 11:41:44

snoochie boochies bitches.

guest : 2009-08-13 10:28:30

zack and miri was fucking awesome.

a beautiful portrait of economic troubles and the route much traveled by the desperate.

Adam. : 2009-08-13 08:31:08

D O G M A

mrps. : 2009-08-12 22:43:41

Like Smith wasn't a stoner before.

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