Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smithis an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo "Jay & Silent Bob". Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were mostly all set in his home state of New Jersey. While not...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 August 1970
CityRed Bank, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.
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.
Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.
Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.
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.
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.
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.
It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.