Kevin Smith Quotes

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

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be

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

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

AZRAEL:
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

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

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

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

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

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

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

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Brodie Bruce:
I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; it's the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I say what other people won't.

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.

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.

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

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

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

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

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

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

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.

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.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Failure is success training.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

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.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

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 don't have to write to South West buddy. In an hour South West gonna come looking for me!

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

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.

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.

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

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

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.

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.