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Kevin Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and writer known for his witty, dialogue-driven movies. His cult classic debut, "Clerks," launched the View Askewniverse, a shared universe for many of his films. He continues to influence pop culture through his work in film, television, podcasts, and comics. Here are 57 of his quotes:

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there. (Kevin Smith)
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. View quote
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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. View quote
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Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat. View quote
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If you grow up fat, you have to try harder. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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. View quote
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If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995. View quote
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I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I liked hockey, and I still like hockey. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie. View quote
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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)
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you. View quote
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I say what other people won't. View quote
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Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20. View quote
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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. View quote
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Director
Born: August 2, 1970
Quotes count: 57
Wikipedia: Kevin Smith

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