Kevin Smith
If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.Collection: Artist
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.Collection: Dream
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.Collection: Men
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.Collection: Worry
Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Hero
Failure is success training.Collection: Training
In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.Collection: Celebrate
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.Collection: Dream
I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.Collection: Inspirational
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.Collection: Love
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.Collection: Life
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.Collection: Father
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.Collection: Inspirational
In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.Collection: Weed
Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.Collection: Dream
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Fun
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.Collection: Air
Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?Collection: Heart
I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.Collection: Real
People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.Collection: Jobs
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwardsCollection: Hollywood
We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.Collection: Dirty
This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?Collection: Reality
One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Jobs
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.Collection: Fun
I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.Collection: Character
T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.Collection: Invisibility Cloak
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.Collection: Weed
People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.Collection: Sex
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 goodCollection: Weed
I'm not even supposed to be here today.Collection: Clerks
It takes nothing to encourage an artist.Collection: Artist
Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.Collection: Cute
Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.Collection: Life
Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna beCollection: Puck
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.Collection: Cheating
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.Collection: People
With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.Collection: Canyons
I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.Collection: Hate
My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'Collection: Jobs
When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.Collection: Heart
Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.Collection: Film