Kevin Smith Quotes
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In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.
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It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
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Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.
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I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
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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.
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I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.
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Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
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I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.
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Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
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In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.
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Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?
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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.
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There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.
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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.
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Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be
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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.
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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.
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People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
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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.
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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.
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I say what other people won't.
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Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.
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I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
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We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.
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It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
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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.
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