Smith has described how he creates the scripts. Following Zack and Miri Make a Porno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_and_Miri_Make_a_Porno), he had "a sort of nervous breakdown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_breakdown), or as close to a mid-life crisis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-life_crisis)" and started heavily smoking cannabis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis), which, he claims, has contributed to his writing of the series<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Widening_Gyre#cite_note-1)</sup>:
<table style="margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;" class="cquote"><tbody><tr><td style="color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20">“</td> <td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">I’m not telling you anything new…I’m far more creative now, you know. I’ve been writing this Batman: The Widening Gyre miniseries, and I’m stoned all the time when I’m writing it. And, I swear, I’ll write it, and then, it’s not so much blackout, but forget, so much so that the next morning, I go to read what I wrote, and it’s, like, I’m that fuckin’ little cobbler and elves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf) came and fuckin' wrote it in the night, because I’m, like, "This is better than anything I’ve ever written before." I mean, like, I’ve done comics, but this is way better.
kevin smith undergoing "THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE" complex and doing wonders for the pro-drug movement, ladies and gentlemen.
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