A biography for Kevin Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.”
“Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.”
“And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.”
“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 think: 'Wouldn't it be great to work with Bill Murray?' And then I'm like, 'You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don't find out that maybe he's not the dude you want to work with.'”
“And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.”
“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.”
“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.”
“Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.”
“Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.”
“It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.”
“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.”
“If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.”
“It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.”
“If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.”
“When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.”
“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.”
“Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.”