Kevin Smith Will Be Giving ALL Residual Money He Makes From Harvey Weinstein Movies To The 'Women In Film' Charity

Kevin Smith broke down to tears on this week’s Hollywood Babble On (his podcast with Ralph Garman from KROQ/Joe Schmo Show, Kevin Smith broke down to tears when talking about Harvey Weinstein, the man who purchased Clerks and gave the indie filmmaker his career. He’s been very vocal in showing admiration and thanks to Harvey over the last 20 years, because without him, he’d just be $27,000 in debt from a movie nobody saw. When this horrible fucking shit came out about Weinstein, a monster of the highest degree, Kevin tweeted the following…

…and here’s what he had to say on the podcast:

“My entire career is tied up with the man. Everything I did in the beginning has his name on it. And I spent many years lionizing him, telling stories. Whenever I tell the Clerks story, there’s, you know, and then we got bought by Miramax. I’m not a victim in this. This is not about me at all. We know who the victims are. But my shit is tied up with this man… I just wanted to make some fucking movies, that’s it. That’s why I came, that’s why I made Clerks. And no fucking movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, fuck it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really fucking horrible.”

*somebody yells “IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!”*

“I know it’s not my fault, but I didn’t fucking help. Because I sat out there talking about this man like he was a hero, like he was my friend, like he was my father and shit like that, and he changed my fucking life. And I showed other people, ‘You can dream, and you can make stuff, and this man will put it out. I was singing praises of somebody that I didn’t fucking know. I didn’t know the man that they keep talking about in the press. Clearly he exists, but that man never showed himself to me. It all hurts, and it didn’t happen to me, but it all hurts.”

“So I’ve been trying to think of what to do. Everyone on the Internet of course has an opinion; a lot of people when I said that I’m ashamed, I wrote a tweet saying I’m ashamed, a lot of people of course were like, ‘Give all the money back.’ Well, I don’t have money from 20 years ago, do you? But that being said, I work in an industry where thankfully there are dividends that come out of a movie for the rest of your life, so there’s such a thing as residuals, where I still get money for those movies, for the movies I made at Miramax and for the movies I made with at Weinstein. The first thing I feel like I can do is, I don’t want that anymore.”

Yep, that’s right. Kevin Smith will no longer take any money he makes from Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks Uncensored (cartoon), or Jersey Girl. That’ll now all be going to Women In Film, a nonprofit organization that helps females in the movie business achieve their dreams. I don’t know how residuals work, but I would imagine they’re a couple thousand dollars per month, especially for movies as big as those (Clerks/Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back mainly). He’s also said that if The Weinstein Company goes under and he somehow doesn’t make residuals from those movies, he’ll be giving at least $2,000 to the charity every month for the rest of his life.

I know there’s probably a decent amount of you out there that don’t care about this, but the horrid side of Hollywood is finally being exposed, and I wanted to highlight some good in this world. Some semblance of hope that not everyone in that industry is a monster.

Ol’ Kevin Smith is a good one.