Entertainment Weekly’s The Visionaries: Filmmakers

July 26th, 2008 • 1,145 Views • Dave Bergschneider

This was a very interesting panel to experience as Judd Apatow & Kevin Smith made a perfect coupling of dick & homosexual jokes while Zack Snyder seemed like a deer caught in headlights and Frank Miller appeared to wonder where he went wrong to end up on this panel.

Each panelist was introduced with applause from the audience as they took their seats, with Smith getting a standing ovation from many of the fans. Marc Bernardin of Entertainments Weekly began the panel by asking the panel some questions.

Rather than give you a full transcript like other sites we prefer to be brief (or lazy depending on view point) and simply give you the highlights of the panel.

When asked why they started making this type of material Judd replied “I was 16 years old, 17 years old, I had sex for the first time, and I said, ‘Was it good for you?’ and she said, ‘I guess it’ll get better.’ Then I knew.”

Kevin Smith was very excited about the Watchmen movie. “Watchmen movie is so f**ing important!” He said. “I see that movie, I’m ready to f**king die! My life has been fulfilled.”

When asked about fanboy moments Zach Snyder answered from his directing history, “I was shooting a TV commercial with Harrison Ford.” He said, “I told him, ‘I have a Han Solo carbon freeze in my house’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, you probably shouldn’t have told me that.’

In response to the very same fanboy question, Frank Miller responded, “I was on the set of Sin City and we were doing the first scene where Bruce Willis finds out that the girl he saved had become an exotic dancer. I had picked the music, it was Emmy Lou Harris’s Wrecking Ball. She was doing this exotic, beautiful dance with a lasso. I found myself bursting into tears because I realized a dream had just come true.”

Check out the images of the panel below.

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