Kevin Smith Quotes

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Kevin Smith

Profession : Director

Birth : August 2, 1970

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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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.

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People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

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In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

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

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If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

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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.

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

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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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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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I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

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