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TORONTO — Kevin Smith, writer and director of movies like Clerks and Chasing Amy, said the best film of 2013 is the Canadian independent feature The Dirties.
“Hands down the best film I saw all year,” Smith said. “Three kids with a camera made something so gripping, so adult, so outside the box — something you’ve never seen. It is the boldest film that I’ve seen in a long, long time.”
Smith said Matt Johnson’s film inspired him to continue making movies.
“If this is what film is, that’s what I want to do now,” he said.
Smith, in Toronto to work on his TV series Spoilers, spoke to Global’s The Morning Show inside Queen Video. He said he recently wrapped work on “a weird horror movie” set in Manitoba (but filmed in the U.S.).
“Best movie I ever made,” Smith said of Tusks stars Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment and Justin Long. “That’s not saying a lot, but it really is.”
Smith, 43, is an unabashed movie geek. He loves watching movies, talking about movies and making movies.
In the interview with The Morning Show‘s Liza Fromer, Smith also shared his views on the future of filmmaking, his thoughts on movies like Reservoir Dogs and The Breakfast Club, his memory of losing Seann William Scott to a Canadian hockey movie, and his thoughts on the disappearance of porn from video stores.
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