Quotes from Kevin Smith

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.

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.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

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.

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.

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.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

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

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

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

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

Failure is success training.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

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.

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

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.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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