Kevin Smith's Quotes

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

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

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.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

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.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

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

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

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.

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.

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'

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.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

I think: 'Wouldn't it be great to work with Bill Murray?' And then I'm like, 'You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don't find out that maybe he's not the dude you want to work with.'

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.

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.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

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.

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. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.