Kevin Smith: What Makes You A Filmmaker? (05.09.09 - Day 763)

How Many Days? Day 763

Writer/Director Kevin Smith talks about what it means to be a filmmaker versus a filmmaker getting paid to make movies. How to set goals and what it is you might be looking for in terms of a directing career in the movie business. Very realistic and inspiring.

Filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth is on a mission to meet the Hollywood professionals that have inspired him in his career thus far.

Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Jimmy Eat World, Zach Braff, Tom Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp, Harry Knowles, Dan Mirvish, Bryan Singer, and Ellen DeGeneres.

Click here to see the daily video journals from Gavin as he asks, pleads, begs, whines for these people to sit down for dinner and offer advice and encouragement for his directing career.

If you have a lead... contact Gavin:

519.560.1673
aap_gavin@hotmail.com
www.howmanydays.ca

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[loveofphysics]

WTF?!? a 5 minute video with a 2 minute intro, I clicked this to watch Kevin Smith, not some canadian jerkoff

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@loveofphysics skip forward :) You're welcome.

[Quaniverse]

Kevin is bragging.

lucky bastard.

who's gonna finance a distribution company?

YOU, you fat-paycheck fuck.

You have the means, Mr. Smith.

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@Quaniverse but he doesn't WANT to be a distributor :) You do it! haha

[MurdocLC]

Ur site howmanydays.ca gives me a fleshlight site... ._.

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@MurdocLC Tell me about it! Major website FUCK UP! New site coming soon, will be a different URL.

[the1mightygod]

would like to meet you dude, im also a filmmaker

[spidvid]

Love this guy, very candid and honest about what it takes to make it! Very nice Gavin, we already love you man! Plus we're Canadian too so bonus to us! We should collaborate!

[dallasbagley]

Fuck, this guy's energy is wicked! Him and Tarantino are both something else in that sense... Love it!

[shadowseeker629]

@GavinMichaelBooth you should have the interview par with links to the other to make the easily accessible

[ClintonHammond]

@Jimbothy There was porn long before there was the internet... ;-)

[Jimbothy]

@ClintonHammond

Porn...