These days, director Kevin Smith isn’t just battling Southwest Air but more, how do you say, profanely sacred matters. Of course, some jackasses have questioned why Smith would ever be flying a budget airline, so he revealed on Twitter that he’s taken a huge pay cut to keep his latest film, Cop Out, from becoming a PG-13 casualty. Yep, an upfront 65% salary loss plus some additional cuts… all for the sake of an R-rating. Damn, I hope this fucking works out for Smith, whose excerpted comments can be found below. Since this is Twitter, things appear in reverse chronological order, so it all starts at the bottom of the left column:

Kevin Motherfucking Smith, folks. You know, it’s rather amazing how, as a culture, we remain ridiculously uptight about a few little words. After all, these words have never killed anyone like so-called devout members of religion that wouldn’t dare speak a “dirty” word but would kill in the name of their diety. Fuck that.