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Cashing in with "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy"
"Basically the whole filmmaking gig came out of seeing ‘Slackers’ for my 21st birthday. It was a very different film than what I was used to -- I was weaned on the mainstream. Here was a talk-heavy piece with, like, zero plot, and the audience was getting into it and I was getting into it." "I was always wanted to be a screenwriter, but it never occurred to me to be a director... What Richard [Linklater] directed was not necessarily hugely commercial and not totally indicative of what a mainstream director is. So I saw that and thought it was a great way to maintain the quality of your material -- it’s not like anybody is going to be screwing with it if you're directing your own script."
"With the black-and-white and the static camera [in "Clerks"], we kind of wanted to evoke the security camera image, a day-in-the-life type thing… it’s that whole feeling of ennui." "Miramax bought the film after the last screening at Sundance."
"They kind of say ipso facto you’re a filmmaker. I don’t know if the title applies, you know, it’s like come on guys, it’s 90 minutes of dick jokes set in a convenience store. I don’t know if it’s truly the nature of film." (Out-takes from an interview) Copyright Q. Johnson |
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