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It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
Kevin Smith
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Kevin Smith
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 2
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Kevin Patrick Smith
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I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.
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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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People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
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All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
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Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
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