Kevin Smith

“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.”

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

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

“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.”

“I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I say what other people won't.”

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

“From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'”

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

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

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