Kevin Smith Quotes
They`re like, `I can`t believe Kevin Smith gets into comics, and all he can do is a superhero comic.` Well, that`s what I want to do.
I wasn`t disappointed by The Phantom Menace. I know a lot of people were but I was one of those cats who wasn`t. You go in with low expectations, or not expecting it to bring you right back to the days of your youth, but it`s kind of a fun movie.
(in response to Tim Burton claiming he doesn`t read comics) Well that would explain Batman.
Now you`ve gotta spend two thousand bucks to stay at my house. And for five, I`ll let you photograph my wife in the shower.
I once wrote a horror screenplay for my friend Vincent to make when he was in high school that was close to Bergman`s The Seventh Seal". Very psychological horror stuff. Alot of the religious elements in the script ended up in Dogma.
I was a fan of the Daredevil and Green Arrow characters, so it seemed logical to write them. Now I`m kind of interested in taking obscure characters and seeing if we can turn them into top ten books. I mean, DD and GA had somewhat built-in audiences, so there was a basis to work from. But could we take a Doctor Strange book and put that in the top ten? That`d be a fun challenge.
Each flick I`ve done is kind of a snapshot of where I was in my life when I wrote it; `Clerks II` really speaks to where I am in life at the moment. You don`t have to be an analyst to look at the movie and go, `The Quick Stop means a little more than the Quick Stop, and Florida represents something more than just going to Florida.` That`s kind of where I am. There`s definitely something bittersweet about arriving at `Clerks II.`
More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; it's the battle that goes on within him or herself.
It wasn`t the first comic I ever actually READ, but the first comic I remember slapping down hard-earned money for was a `Superman Family` Annual in which the first story featured a married Lois and Superman waking up on a cloud. I remember being oddly aroused by the whole thing. I mean, the implication was that these two were fucking.
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn't be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies '“ particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
(on the hoopla over homosexual slurs in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back") "Gay or straight has never been a big issue with me. Sex is sex, as far as I`m concerned. Some cats dig on the opposite gender, and some cats dig on their own. Sexual identity will always be as mystifying as why `The Dukes of Hazzard` was once the number one television show in our country: there`s no point in getting bent out of shape about it; it just IS. Some cats will always gravitate toward Daisy Duke, and some will always pine over Boss Hogg."
Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.
The Jay character is kind of based on who Jason was when he was about 14 years old. In the movies he`s a bit more well spoken than he was at that age. Silent Bob - there is no affiliation to myself. I needed a guy to stand next to Jay and not say much, being that Jason was going to be saying a lot. - on resemblances between real life and his characters
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. 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. After something like `Mallrats` or `Jersey Girl,` the expectations are in the toilet. People are like, `He`s over, he`s done.` So it`s easier to be, like, `Ta-da, I`m not.` It`s a much more comfortable place to work from. When you have an escalating career, and every time you have to outdo yourself, I couldn`t handle that kind of pressure. But having to outdo `Jersey Girl`? Not very difficult.
My Father taught me how to be a man '“ and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.
On considering dropping out of the Green Hornet film (August 19, 2004): "Right after Jersey Girl came out and kind of underperformed, I was just like, `I got no business making large-budget movies.` I should always make movies that cost less than 10 million bucks... I just don`t think somebody like me should be in charge of big-budget movies. I`m too interested in dialogue, and dialogue and big budgets just don`t blend very well."
