Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smithis an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo "Jay & Silent Bob". Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were mostly all set in his home state of New Jersey. While not...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 August 1970
CityRed Bank, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.
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.
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.
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.
Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
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.
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards