Words matter. These are the best Kevin Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.
I say what other people won’t.
From now on, any flick I’m ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: ‘You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.’
I didn’t get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.
I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that’s really it. In anything I’ve ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don’t think is a bad thing.
Don’t let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
It’s silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
The first few films I made didn’t look good at all, and I wasn’t trying to make them look good. People dig ’em because they like the content.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that’s that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
It’s kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It’s not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you’re watching.
All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.
I saw Richard Linklater’s film ‘Slacker’ for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
In anything I’ve ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don’t think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn’t sound like them at all.
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
It’s kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.
You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can’t all be Joss Whedon.
Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, ‘Hey man, I’m reaching my audience everyday. I’m twittering with them. I’m in direct contact with them on the podcast.’
Dudes know I’m not a threat. Chicks know I’m not a threat.
It’s taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
And the podcasting – I swear to you – on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they’re more imaginative, and there’s no artifice, and it’s far more real.
I grew up in a pretty gay world – my brother’s gay and he’s been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
I think: ‘Wouldn’t it be great to work with Bill Murray?’ And then I’m like, ‘You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don’t find out that maybe he’s not the dude you want to work with.’
When you’re an artist, all you’re trying to do is self-express.
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
