Filmmaker Kevin Smith is determined to lose weight after breaking a toilet at a friend’s DVD and comic book store in LA recently.

Smith said that when he saw the unconventional toilet bowl attached to the wall, he knew it was going to break.

“That kind of toilet, with no base, is no friend to a fat man,” said Smith

After reportedly throwing himself into the door to prevent further breaking the bowl, his friend came to the door to ask if Smith was alright.

Smith continued, “I just point to the bowl and he looks at it and looks at the terror in my face and he realizes we have a business relationship together and he goes, ‘Nobody ever needs to know about this.’ That was the moment, where I was like, ‘I got to lose some weight.’ I broke the porcelain in half.”

Smith’s latest movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as two life-long best friends who live together and come up with the idea to make a porn flick to solve their money issues. As the filming goes onward, the two realize they have more feelings for each other than originally thought.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno opens nationwide on October 31st, 2008.