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Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

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Kevin Smith
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 2
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Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
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Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.
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I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.
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I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.
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Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
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People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
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I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
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Live a Why not? life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
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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.
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Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
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Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
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If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
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We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.
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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.
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For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.
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People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
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