Kevin Smith Quotes:
You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can’t all be Joss Whedon.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
When you’re an artist, all you’re trying to do is self-express.
Kevin Smith
When you’re a filmmaker you’re part of a very expensive art form.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
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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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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The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
Kevin Smith
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that’s that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
Kevin Smith
Oh, I’m online all the time now. I’m not an outdoorsy type.
Kevin Smith
Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
Kevin Smith
I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
It’s taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
Kevin Smith
It’s silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
Kevin Smith
It’s like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you’ve won.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
It’s kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.
Kevin Smith
Indie film isn’t dead, it just grew up.
Kevin Smith
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
Kevin Smith
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.
Kevin Smith
If you’re lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
Kevin Smith
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