Kevin Smith Quotes

• 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.

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• When you’re an artist, all you’re trying to do is self-express.

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• Oh, I’m online all the time now. I’m not an outdoorsy type.

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• Generally, I wake up, honestly it’s creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.

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• Storytelling is my currency. It’s my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

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• Everybody’s got one killer story. It doesn’t take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

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• You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can’t all be Joss Whedon.

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• You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can’t get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it’s so crushing.

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• When you’re a filmmaker you’re part of a very expensive art form.

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• There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be.

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• The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

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• 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.

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• So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that’s how I suspect a lot of people do it.

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• People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

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• 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.

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• Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that’s that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

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• 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.

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• If you’re lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

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• If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

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• If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

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Kevin Smith (50)

Birth:	2nd August, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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