Name: Joe Rogan Experience #883 - Kevin Smith
Uploaded: 2016-12-07T03:57:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #883 - Kevin Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #883 - Kevin Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #883 - Kevin Smith

let's fucking do it
yeehaw kevin smith we did it again is it happening yes sir we're there we're
here we're live um this
took a while to bring together so nice to see you excellent to see you before
we go far any farther
or far at all or do anything let me just throw out there i was telling somebody
like what are
you doing today i was like i'm gonna go talk to joe rogan then i launched into
my like 10 minute joe
rogan pitch and at the end of it the person i was talking to goes oh like you
you've known him a long
time i said i've talked to him like twice in person and she was like you just
went on a passionate
tirade about the man i said i gotta i don't know how to explain it but i love
the way he lives like
i've i've loved the man since news radio and then i like meeting the man and
and speaking with him
on previous podcasts both his and mine but not just that and i love your
philosophy i love the
way you do life you handle it like the way i would if i was you like that's the
best compliment i could
give but i'm not you so i'm gutless and i live through your instagram like i
look at how you live
i was like this is how man lives if only i could be this man so coming here is
is absolute fucking
pleasure i thought we're going to your house but that happened years ago
apparently yeah i moved out of
the house this is dope people got creepy there's too many too many creepy
people like when you don't
want them coming to your house but you do want them on the podcast i'm like
shit when i went like
this is it must have been a while ago because megan was still working for me
and she drove me
and she like had to take a leak she pissed outside
we did a five-hour podcast it was so long and then i felt bad i was like maybe
that's why he's not
having me back at the house he's like we're bringing him to the satellite
office because
he lets his assistants void in the yard yeah i'm feeling fucking dope sir all
right let me tell you why
i made this movie called yoga hosers that just finally came on to netflix and i
took it to sundance
in january and they bent me over and just critically speaking and we're just
hate fucking it they hated
this movie a lot of people reviewed it from the moment we announced it i'm like
hey i'm gonna make
a movie with my daughter and johnny depson and his daughter's gonna be in it
too and right away i saw
it like fucking the long sharp knives come out and so as expected it goes to
sundance and
you know so i'm not saying this movie's for everybody it's for like 10 people
in the world
but the 10 people that love it will love it like religion well haven't you
always done that though
you just kind of do what you like to do story of my life if i could turn it
around turn on you what i
like about what you do is you're you're very much an accepted inside guy who
lives like some guy
from jersey who's trying to break into the business is that like this is useful
because you
never really understand how people professionals see you you know how the world
sees you because
they'll tell you at any given moment yeah joe joe normal or sally normal people
who live in the
real world and shit but your peers and people like we work in entertainment and
shit yeah how
you're very you're very unaffected you're a uniquely unaffected but also like
ineffective at the same
time no no you're very effective you're effective at doing what you enjoy and
that's why you have
such a unique and loyal fan base is because they know they're it's like in this
world there's not a
whole lot of unique visions there's a lot of ideas that get brought to
producers and executives and a
bunch of people pile in and it becomes more of a an idea where it's trying to
appeal to a broader
audience and it switches up and then someone wants to bring in a love interest
there's all sorts of
influences that happen that homogenize as you drink some milk i know that was
perfect timing milk oh my
lord that was perfect the perfect timing of a stand-up comic well done my it
does really that's the best
word for it because even though if it's good like you you don't feel like that
guy like tarantino is
one of the unique guys where even though his movies are these gigantic mega
blockbusters it feels like
he's doing his own thing yeah it feels like this crazy fucker just got the
money and the wheels and
they're listening to him because he's tarantino your movies also connects with
more people yeah there's
more of a like oh yeah that's cool it's cinema of cool because you could just
look at even if you
don't have an experiential connection to it like oh i once went to a 50s cafe
as per yeah you're just
like that looks bad yeah seeing john travolta dancing luma thurman that's
badass all the way
milkshakes everything yeah everything about it is just like cinema of cool and
fed by a lifetime of
movie loving and a movie diet yeah so if you love movies here's a guy that distills
everything that's the essence of cool of cinema and i don't want to keep
hitting the cool bell because
people are like come on that's a hipster term but it does distill it down to
those moments not so much
like massive arcs but oh this feels awesome yeah that's dope oh that's metal
well yeah you have
that same kind of thing your your movies are very people well it's your comedy
i think i'm the only
one your comedies in particular like that was one of the more you interesting
and unique things about
red state because i had no you didn't tell me a word about it you said i don't
want you to know
nothing just come in dry which sounded filthier than i meant to me and me and
marin sit there and watched
it and we're at the end of it we're like holy shit like holy shit like what the
was that like that
movie was crazy and it wasn't a comedy at all it's nice to be able to every
once in a while like throw
him a curve and be like oh he's nice we thought we saw everything like i always
felt most people saw
me as like oh he did clerks and then he's done about 96 variations people need
to see red state if you
haven't seen red state that is a i don't want to say too much because i want
people to go into it the
way i went into it just go see that movie but that's another movie where even
though it wasn't
like the same voice it was still a unique voice you know it's like i think i
don't know what it's like
to make a movie but it's got to be a lot of people have a lot of say it depends
what your budget is
bigger the budget the more you know you have to listen to a bunch more people
and you can't be
unreasonable about if you get tremendous amounts of success like jj abrams and
you're a nice guy at
the same time you know you can get away with being like i'm going to do
whatever i want and people
like what you want tends to work so here go nuts but generally speaking the
more money you accept
the more input you also have to accept lower the budget and if it's coming out
of your pocket you
don't got to say to anybody or nobody could tell you anything but you know if
you're putting together
something small it's still a smaller circle of people to kind of answer to you
you always have
to be willing to hear what they're saying somebody's willing to give you ungodly
amounts of money to
make pretend mind you this is not like i'm going to give you funds and you're
going to give me eggs
and then i'm going to sell those eggs and i'm going to make more money selling
those eggs they're
like we're going to give you money and you're going to take this goofy idea you
have and try to make
it real and turn it into a movie that may work or may not work it's all crap
shoot it's like buying a
lottery ticket to a large degree no guarantees that there'll ever be an
audience for it so i learned
that midway in my career and realized well just work for you it sounds masturbatory
but it's like
if you're the audience that you're trying to hit then you'll always be
satisfied you know it's like
if you want other people to like it it's subjective and you may not find that
people dig what you're
doing and you know if you're looking for monetary success good luck nobody can
guess that like even when
marvel releases a new movie and we know marvel is exceptional at what they do
put them in pixar
marvel pixar i don't care the best of the best even when they release a movie
they clench a little
bit because they're like anything could happen yeah like anything could happen
at all so generally
speaking they're a little more insulated from like oh we lost money well
especially those money
those marvel movies are so expensive now because they make dude it's like the
same thing with the animated
movies the animated movies are ungodly expensive to make but they print money
and they print money not
just the first time they come out at the box office they print money through
all the licenses they print
money where you know sometimes you go like they're doing a sequel to that why
why don't they do something
new because they've already built the world it's already there in a computer
and they're like all we
need is new script and we're good we've done our infrastructure like when you
think about it
if you were building something you build all this massive infrastructure and
spend three years putting
it together and did it once and then you're like okay everybody goodbye forever
it's kind of a waste of
everything you put together that's why they immediately go for a sequel no a
they know they're gonna make money
but b they're gonna make more money because they don't have to invest as much
time and money as they did the first time
so that's what makes a studio go like oh that's easier that's low-hanging fruit
and everyone's happy you know it's not like they're making art films that only
a few people like
generally they tend to make flicks that a bunch of people want to go see and
that riles up people
that want to see newer films or something like that because like why is it
always the same movie over
and over again but you know i submit to you if you're going to see a superhero
movie expect a little
fucking sameness it's a story of yeah like an exceptional being with powers
that others don't and
hopefully that person will use it for good you know you can only cut that
cheese so many
fucking times where and say it's something new other than the watchman i think
the watchman took
it to a new place yeah and i love the watchman but at the end of the day it's
just like people in
mass doing the right thing and yeah they in space but other than that there was
people in mass trying
to do the right thing they were murdered too they murdered each other like it
was that they caught
up in batman v superman i heard there were some murders in that movie in the
movie i was like did
they say somebody fucking died in prison and over batman you know they went in
strange directions but
after a year of uh like just taking it over a movie that nobody saw because it
didn't really come out
conventionally we toured it and stuff like that yoga just finally goes to netflix
and i just want to go
back and like here let me just assure people there's something you want to do
do it like as long as it
doesn't hurt somebody um especially if it's something like make something like
a movie or
fucking comic book or art whatever don't worry about the consequences there was
a moment throughout
this year where i was like what was i why would i was stoned why did i make
that movie like oh my god
i'm a fucking idiot and stuff and i forgot somewhere along the way that like
when i made it and this
isn't a cop out of like i didn't make it for everybody but i did kind of target
an audience for
it and i knew going in that i was going to have this weird life to get to where
it is i made it for tween
girls specifically i was like maybe other people could enjoy it but this is for
a tween girl the
way like when i was a tween boy i was clicking on cable i found strange brew
starring bob and doug
mckenzie and i was like oh my god like i've never heard of this before how come
