For those of you who are unfamiliar with Vulgarthon, it’s a film festival we’ve held in Red Bank, New Jersey for the past three years. We’ll screen DOGMA and other films of mine alongside films that have not yet been given wide distribution. It’s nice because it lets some of these smaller films get seen and fans of the older films can see those in a theater with those involved in the filmmaking process.

I’ve been thinking of moving it here, but you can only imagine the shitstorm I created with that idea. I can’t tell you how many times in my career I’ve been called a sellout, but moving anything from New Jersey for me brands me a sellout of the worst sort. My e-mail is flooded with slogans of “Jersey Represent.”

I just figured it would be nice to actually have some of the stars of the movies show up, and having it here might make that a little easier. I know it’ll be easier to get Ben to show up if I have it here. Hell, it’s tough enough to get him out of the house at all these days considering he’s, you know, fucking… I think the next one will be here though.

Now that JERSEY GIRL is almost finished, what are you thinking about next?

Every time I work on a project, people ask me what’s next. This is really one of the first times I don’t have anything specific in mind. Again if I could do the FLETCH project with Lee I’d be all about that and there is the CLERKS cartoon, but the other two projects I’ve been tossing around are each very distinct. One is sort of a sci-fi romance I’ve been toying around with for a long time. The other would be a remake of this amazingly bad movie from the seventies, starring Peter Fonda and Loretta Switt RACE WITH THE DEVIL. I’m obsessed with the title, and it’s about these two couples that go out in their Winnebago to do some camping, and stumble across a satanic ritual. When they are discovered, the cult chases them and they spend the rest of the movie, you guessed it, racing with the devil. Of course, I pitched it to Bob Weinstein because it’s this great slasher flick and I figured it would be right up his alley, and he just thought it was a terrible idea. He didn’t even like the name, pointing out that they’re not really racing with the Devil but from him. Turns out someone actually already has the rights, so I’m even less excited about it now.