Post by Onime no Kyo on Jul 14, 2013 23:47:37 GMT -6
"The world is full of fucking ‘why?’. You tell people something, they’ll tell you ‘why?’. You throw a rock you’ll hit somebody with ‘why?’. ‘Hey man I want to make a movie’. ‘Why? Why do you think you can do that, why? Nobody else is doing it, why are you doing it?' There is so much fucking ‘why?’. You go out and you find ‘why not’. You surround yourself with ‘why not’. People are just like ‘why not’. Where you are like ‘Hey man I’m gonna try something’ and they're like ‘Yeah, why not, let’s give it a shot’. People will try to help you do your dreams, make your dreams come true, and shit you do the same for fucking them. We’re all in this together. And it costs nothing to encourage a fucking artist. That's why I get up here for almost 20 years now after the movies, man there aint a lot of film makers that get up after the movie and spend more time than the movie itself talking. But I've been trying to impart one simple lesson for nearly 20 fucking years. Anybody can do this, you know what I'm saying? I wasn't born into a business, or the film business, or born with a mic in my hands. I have no fucking discernible talent whatsoever. I have no connections to the business. We're from fucking New Jersey and stuff. I got lucky. Somebody picked up the movie and boom, I was off and running. And part of that manifest, when you're brought into the indie film community, part of your job, part of your honor, part of your privilege is to make sure that keeps going. To encourage other people. You know, to tell people it's worth the shot. Just like Wayne Gretzky said “You miss 100% of the shots you never take”. It’s always worth the fucking shot. Now, if you're talking about like if what your shot is "I've always wanted to kill 12 children, Kevin", don't take that shot at all! I'm not talking about that, I’m talking about artsy shit. You know, writing a blog, fucking making some music, making a movie, making a fucking cupcake store, fucking a knitting store, fucking putting together a YouTube clip. Just anything that’s just not fucking ‘oh, we must do this because it’s part of my job or this will get money’. Some shit you just do just to see if it can be done. Live a ‘why not’ life, because we are all going to fucking die screaming. So make sure, when you die screaming, you are totally fulfilled. Like, I took all the shot, and I went after everything I wanted to or at least tried. Take the shot. The shot is always fucking worth taking."
-Kevin Smith
"Snootchie Bootchies"
- Jason Mewes