254 Quotes by Kevin Smith

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do – not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

Live a “Why not?” life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

I didn’t get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

In this life, if you don’t celebrate yourself, nobody will.

Don’t go where the puck’s been; go where it’s gonna be.

Indie film isn’t dead, it just grew up.

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.

My job is to say, ‘This is how I see the world. Do you agree?’

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can’t generate. Life becomes stagnant.