Kevin Smith Quotes

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Kevin Smith

Profession : Director

Birth : August 2, 1970

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

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Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

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There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to 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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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. 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.

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It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

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And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.

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Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.

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

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People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

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When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

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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.'

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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.'

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