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.
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All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
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.
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.
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.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.
I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
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.
You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
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.
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.

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