Quotes By Kevin Smith

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

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

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

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

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. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

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.

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

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.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

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