Kevin Smith Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I say what other people won’t.

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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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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

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• Dudes know I’m not a threat. Chicks know I’m not a threat.

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

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

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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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• Indie film isn’t dead, it just grew up.

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Kevin Smith (50)

Birth:	2nd August, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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