American - Director | August 2, 1970 -
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
Kevin Smith
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Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
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In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.
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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.
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The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
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Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
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