3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith I saw Richard Linklater’s film ‘Slacker’ for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can’t all be Joss Whedon.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith Everybody’s got one killer story. It doesn’t take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
