Top 80 Kevin Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 2

51. “If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.”

— Kevin Smith

52. “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

53. “I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I’ll never be thin. Let’s be honest.”

— Kevin Smith

54. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

55. “I say what other people won’t.”

— Kevin Smith

56. “When you’re an artist, all you’re trying to do is self-express.”

— Kevin Smith

57. “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

58. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

59. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

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

— Kevin Smith

61. “Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.”

— Kevin Smith

62. “Indie film isn’t dead, it just grew up.”

— Kevin Smith

63. “And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.”

— Kevin Smith

64. “I saw Richard Linklater’s film ‘Slacker’ for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”

— Kevin Smith

65. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

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

— Kevin Smith

67. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

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

— Kevin Smith

69. “My job is to say, ‘This is how I see the world. Do you agree?’”

— Kevin Smith

70. “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

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

— Kevin Smith

72. “I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.”

— Kevin Smith

73. “Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.”

— Kevin Smith

74. “People tend to romanticize this job. So, it’s fun to let the air out of it.”

— Kevin Smith

75. “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

76. “I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment.”

— Kevin Smith

77. “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

78. “I don’t hate you ’cause I’m crazy... I’m crazy ’cause I hate you.”

— Kevin Smith

79. “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.”

— Kevin Smith

80. “Whenever I’m not shooting, I’m in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I’m behind the Avid, putting the flick together.”

— Kevin Smith

81. “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

82. “My American Dream has always been simple, and it’s one I encourage you to adopt as your own: Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.”

— Kevin Smith

83. “Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he’s clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.”

— Kevin Smith

84. “Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.”

— Kevin Smith