Kevin smith came on the scene more than 15 yrs ago. He was handed the WonkaStein golden ticket. No one can claims he's spent the last decade and a half making misunderstood masterpieces.

Kevin smith is the quintessential 'right place right time' guy. if Clerks came out two years later no one would've given a shit about him.

you want donations?

there are a million burgeoning filmmakers out there who deserve a shot that didn't have harvey weinstein funding their projects and ignoring the fact that they were sliding further back with every film. (seriously, post Chasing Amy what do you look at with pride? Brief chunks of Dogma? Your Ostentatious 'envelope-pushing' in Clerks 2? The fact that 'Zack&Miri' was somehow the marketing departments fault? Way to take the high road on that by the way. It clearly couldn't be that people were "aware" of your movie. It just wasn't funny, new, or interesting.)

Now Mr. Smith goes around giving talks, selling dvds OF HIS SPEECHES, whats the production budget on those buddy? Can't be very high. And you're talking about your life, you're not a stand-up comedian generating material.

Use that money to fund the movie that you haven't stopped talking about for what feels like five years.

Or possibly have an ounce of confidence in your new movie.

Clearly you wouldn't attach yourself to a piece of shit project (not counting the ones you have written) . If someone is to 'donate' to you as an artist then clearly they should have faith that your new film will speak for itself and get you all the funding you need.

What's it called again?

Cop Out?

I'm sorry. You can ignore all of this. Poor poor kevin smith needs all the help he can get.

Hollywood has never even given him a chance to make a successful movie.

I only bring it up because he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. He so clearly milks his fans for money at every opportunity, that when he says stuff like "I'm keeping out the trolls," it's hard to believe him.

Also, according to the podcast he does with his friend/producer Scott Mosier, he originally planned on treating it more like "investments" rather than donations, working out a system where people would get a their money back plus a little extra. Certainly could have changed and been too much of a planning nightmare to be feasible, but just sayin'.