Kevin Smith Quotes - Page 2

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

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

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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

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.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.

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

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

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

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.

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.