Kevin Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.”
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“For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.”
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“In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.”
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“T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.”
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“I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.”
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“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”
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“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.”
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“If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.”
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“People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.”
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“More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.”
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“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
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“People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.”
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“If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.”
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“I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.”
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“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.”
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“All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.”
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“Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.”
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“Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.”
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“Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.”
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“Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be”
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“It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.”
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“Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.”
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“We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.”
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“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.”
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“This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?”
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