Smith's New Success Is Down to Rogen's Weed Diet

11 October 2009

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Filmmaker Kevin Smith has credited actor Seth Rogen - and a newfound loveof marijuana - with pulling him out of a creative downturn.

The Clerks director was uninspired and unsure where his career was headed until the Pineapple Express star talked him into smoking cannabis lastsummer (08).

Now Smith lights up at least three times daily and is swamped with new projects, including a Batman comic and the release of upcoming movie A Pair Of Dicks, starring Bruce Willis.

And Smith concedes he's just not good at directing his own screenplays anymore Judd Apatow is way better at being Kevin Smith now than Kevin Smith ever was

He tells the New York Post, "I know you're supposed to tell kids not todo drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good. What you want to do is what I did, build a movie empire and, at age 38, smoke it all away".

And Smith concedes he's "just not good" at directing his own screenplays anymore "Judd Apatow is way better at being Kevin Smith now than Kevin Smith ever was. So Judd Apatow should do it for a while, and I should figure out something else, and weed has been helpful with that".

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