I really respect Kevin Smith - and this interview encapsulates why.
“You know what I realized one day? I realized that people can write the worst shit about you that you’ve ever seen. They can write really horrible shit about your wife, about your fucking kid. They can write things about your motivations. They can try to peer deep into your soul and write heinous fucking things. They can take you into bizarro world and write the opposite of everything that’s true … and maintain to the world in general that it’s true. And it’s only really recently that I’ve realized that they can do all that and they can’t affect your fucking ability to earn, to love, to be loved, to have a good day.
I mean, it’s just like, weird. You know, I’m sitting next to my laptop. You have this world that you open up and sometimes you get fucking lost in it. Really lost in it. Where it’s like everything that’s said here is true and everybody knows it. And then you’re just like, ‘No … I guess that’s not really true.’
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Life’s too fucking short, man. You wouldn’t let somebody come in your house and continually shit on your rug. Eventually you’d be like ‘Get the fuck outta here!’ And that’s the place I’ve gotten.”
(Thank you to Clare for sending this to me.)
