Kevin: I love the movie. I think it’s the best movie we’ve ever made. When you watch it, it’s the knowledge we learned from the previous six pictures put into one flick—even Jersey Girl, which I know will make some people cringe, but we learned shit on that movie too. Clerks II is funny as fuck and also naughty and poignant and really sweet. It’s also one of the first times we’ve done a movie with you [Jason] that you’ve been clean and sober from start to finish.

Jason: Yeah. It’s good. I was saying how it’s different because some movies I wasn’t getting high or anything during it but I’d be hungover in the morning. I remember on Jay and Bob I’d always be sleeping on the stunt mats. And Dogma I was doing coke the whole time, so I just wanted to get the shot done. I didn’t really enjoy it because I was just like, let’s get this over so I can go back to my trailer and do more drugs. Chasing Amy I was in only one scene, but I was high while I was doing that scene. Mallrats I was drunk only a little bit, but in Clerks I was drunk and stoned the whole time. This one was the first where there wasn’t any of that business. It was nice to wake up every morning feeling normal and energetic. It was a lot of fun.