Kevin Smith Quotes

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I fight demons.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel in, whatever it is, the initial response from the public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, because basically we're kind of raining on folks' parades. As time goes on, the Muhammad Ali's and all the people that raised those issues, they then become heroes later when people reflect on the courage they showed and the issues that they raised. And Donald Trump is in danger of being a more and more reviled figure as the years go on.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

The Warrior sometimes fights with those he loves.

...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.