Top 100 Kevin Smith Quotes
#1. Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
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#3. I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.
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#4. We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.
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#5. BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.
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#6. You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
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#7. 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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#8. 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.
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#9. 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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#10. Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.
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#11. AZRAEL:
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air.
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#12. 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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#13. It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
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#14. 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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#15. Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be
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#16. 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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#17. Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
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#21. Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
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#22. 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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#23. All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
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#24. As human beings we govern our actions with our deepest fears. But if you name that shit, you claim that shit: let enough people into your closet and you'll find there's no more room for skeletons. Leave yourself nowhere to hide and you can live your life unguarded.
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#25. My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'
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#26. Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
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#31. It takes nothing to encourage an artist.
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#32. Brodie Bruce:
You're gonna listen to me? To something I said!? Jesus, man, haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? I mean half the time I'm just talking out of my ass ... or sticking my hand in it.
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#33. People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.
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#34. 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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#35. Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
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#36. Only someone who doesn't understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can't be graded, because it's going to mean something different to everyone. You can't apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression.
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#37. 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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#38. 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.
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#39. Happiness can't be bottled. It can't be smoked, swallowed, shot or ejaculated. And there is no end game: you never cross the finish line and are suddenly happy. Even when all your wildest dreams come true, you still pursue happiness.
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#40. 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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#41. Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
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#42. If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
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#43. Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
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#44. When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.
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#45. 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. (As Silent Bob)
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#46. Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?
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#47. 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.
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#48. Brodie Bruce:
I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!
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#49. When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
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#50. I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.
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#51. If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
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#52. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.
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#53. 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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#54. One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
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#55. Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
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#56. I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.
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#58. Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
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#59. Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
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#60. It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
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#61. 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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#62. I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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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#65. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.
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#66. 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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#67. In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.
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#68. With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.
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#69. I'm not even supposed to be here today.
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#70. I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good
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#71. 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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#72. GOD DOESN'T HATE FAGS OR
ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER.
GOD SAVES! THEN, GOD PASSES IT
TO GRETZKY - WHO ROOFS THAT
SHIT, TOP-SHELF! THEN GOD AND
GRETZKY HIGH FIVE & BELLY-BUMP,
CELEBRATING THEIR HOCKEY
PROWESS. AND NEVER ONCE DO
THEY GIVE A SHIT IF ANYBODY'S
GAY OR NOT.
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#73. 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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#74. I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.
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#76. 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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#77. I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.
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#78. 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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#80. I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
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#81. Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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.
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#85. 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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#86. 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.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. I don't have to write to South West buddy. In an hour South West gonna come looking for me!
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#91. I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.
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#92. It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
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#93. If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.
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#94. 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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#95. It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.
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#96. People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
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#98. Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.
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#99. This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?
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#100. In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.
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