254 Quotes by Kevin Smith

Read the comics, which are probably far better than the film would be if I was involved. Otherwise, my version of Batman would be like him standing around talking for two weeks and not getting anything done. The Bat-A-Rang would never leave the utility belt. It would just be chatting.

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.

Once you get in, you don't fiddle with keys, you don't do anything. You just step on the brake and press the start button to go.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

A whole lot of innocuous material. This is the ideal DVD for the shut-in, and the socially maladjusted. If your mother is your best friend, this is the DVD for you.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

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.

That one I don't feel as bad about. It cost $35 million to make, and we made $25 million, but we followed Gigli (also with Affleck and Lopez), which never got past $6 million. That's the silver lining to the dark cloud of that chapter of my life.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.