Kevin Smith Quotes

Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent. Because if you're not being useful in this world, you're being useless. Don't be useless: go make stuff that makes people happy.

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 funny the things that go through your mind when you're getting the shit kicked out of you. As Bruce Willis' fist came crashing into my face, I thought about that old Shakespeare quote Father Bernard used to throw around back at Holy Name. Something about you only play with a lion when he's a frisky young cub, not when he's an old one, dying. Bruce knew when he agreed to work with me that his career was just about over. He was a lion, once, but now he was just an old one, dying. And I was the only guy around to blame. And man did his fist make that point. Repeatedly.

Even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I’m forever changed because of who you are, and what you’ve meant to me.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Most people hate their jobs, true, but my old man despised his in an Ahab-and-Moby (or Eminem-and-Moby) kinda way. He never said, “Go into the entertainment biz, son” — he was just a living example of why it was worth taking a shot going after the stuff of dreams rather than simply getting a job. I saw how much my dad hated working and realized he was right: Working blows. If you hate what you do, it’ll always be work.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can’t see for ourselves, and then we change forever.

... -because that's when I realized that this life is a rigged game that you cannot win. Even good men die screaming.

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

lifes too $hort kids; do the shit that makes you happy!

Make a thing where there was none, kids. It's crazy what it can lead to.

To naked eye, dear sir, you're whole, but to Elohim's eyes, you're cause to shiver! Have you not yet gleaned your unnatural role? You're not the archer, sir...you're just his quiver!

You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.

First rule of showbiz, my sightless friend…regardless of the size of your audience…always make an entrance, boy…always make an entrance!” — Mysterio (Quentin Beck)