Quotes from Kevin Smith

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

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.'

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

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.

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

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

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

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.'

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

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.

Brodie Bruce: I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!

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.

You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.

To naked eye, dear sir, you're whole, but to Elohim's eyes, you're cause to shiver! Have you not yet gleaned your unnatural role? You're not the archer, sir...you're just his quiver!

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent. Because if you're not being useful in this world, you're being useless. Don't be useless: go make stuff that makes people happy.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can't see for ourselves, and then we change forever.

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

lifes too $hort kids; do the shit that makes you happy!

Even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are, and what you've meant to me.

Most people hate their jobs, true, but my old man despised his in an Ahab-and-Moby (or Eminem-and-Moby) kinda way. He never said, "Go into the entertainment biz, son"—he was just a living example of why it was worth taking a shot going after the stuff of dreams rather than simply getting a job. I saw how much my dad hated working and realized he was right: Working blows. If you hate what you do, it'll always be work.

because that's when I realized that this life is a rigged game that you cannot win. Even good men die screaming.

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.

Make a thing where there was none, kids. It's crazy what it can lead to.