Quotes from Kevin Smith

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

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

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.

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.

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.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

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.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.