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Kevin Smith

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  • “All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.” -Kevin Smith

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  • “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

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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.” -Kevin Smith

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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.” -Kevin Smith

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “Everybody’s got one killer story. It doesn’t take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.” -Kevin Smith

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  • “The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.” -Kevin Smith

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  • “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

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