Personally, I found Kevin Smith quite endearing in this interview, and no disrespect to Tom, but this was the most interesting interview I've heard since the AST podcast (the interviews of Patton, PFT, and Zach G are especially insightful). When he likened his acceptance of his place as a director to coming to terms with having a small d. he won me over (make of that what you will). I appreciate what seemed to be his take - that there are gonna be people who don't like what you do, and that's okay. If all you were doing was rolling your eyes and snickering at Kevin Smith during this interview, you missed out.