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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.

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.

Kevin Smith

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

Kevin Smith

Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.

Kevin Smith

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

Kevin Smith

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Kevin Smith

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.'

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

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

Kevin Smith

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.'

Kevin Smith

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. 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.

Kevin Smith

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.

Kevin Smith

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.

Kevin Smith

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith