“Oh, I’m online all the time now. I’m not an outdoorsy type. Everything I do that’s not related to filmmaking or child-rearing or trying to fuck my wife is online. The medium of Twitter is built for me. I recently did a 24-hour tweetathon, and people asked me how I did it. I said, “The only difference between this and my normal regimen is that I let you know I was doing it.” I have 1.6 million followers–this army of people who think like me. There aren’t enough of us to invade a whole country, but we could probably take Quebec.”

This smaller piece is followed up with a much larger interview with Wired that again takes a tech slant, but covers the span of his career. It uses some of the same material from the previous interview but is a lot more detailed. That’s the one we’d recommend if you’re choosing:

“…If nobody gave me another dollar to make I movie, I’d probably finance it myself if I were passionate. But I’ve done it enough. So long, and thanks for all the fish. Zack and Miri really took box office away from me. If A Couple Of Dicks came out and made $30 million I wouldn’t care. I can’t tell you how miserable it was to be the guy who made Mallrats. But now there are kids who come up to me that are 15 who tell me how much they loved Mallrats. He was some bastard’s dirty urge when the film came out, and now he’s watching my flicks and relating to them.

My entire career I owe to the Internet. I owe Harvey Weinstein for the money to make Clerks and Universal for Mallrats. After that, I had to rebuild everything that I had. The rest I owe to the good fucking people of the Internet.”