Kevin Smith

Filmmaker

Kevin Smith is a filmmaker and writer known for his cult classics like 'Clerks' and 'Chasing Amy', which explore themes of authenticity and creativity.

Born
August 2, 1970
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#5660

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"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"

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"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."

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"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."

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"Failure is success training."

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"If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995."

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

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

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

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

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"Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working."

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"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."

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