Kevin Smith Quotes

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

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.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

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.

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.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

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.

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

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

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

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

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

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

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.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you’re political about movies, and that’s dark. It’s just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

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.

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

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

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

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

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

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.

Failure is success training.

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.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

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

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

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.

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

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

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

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.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

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

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.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.