Quotes from Kevin Smith


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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.


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


In Hollywood you just fail upwards.


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


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


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


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


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.'


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.


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


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.'


Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.


Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.


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


If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.


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


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.


I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.


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


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