Kevin Smith Quotes - Page 4

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.

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?

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.'

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

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.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

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.

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.

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

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.

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.