Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2 1970) is a screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.

His movies are known for their distinctive vision and dialogue, but are sometimes criticized for crude humour, limited attention to plot development, and technical amateurishness. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey and stuffed with pop culture references, particularly to the Star Wars movies. He appears in many of his movies as the rarely-speaking character Silent Bob.

Smith is a noted comic book author who has written for Daredevil, Green Arrow, and Black Cat. He has also written three original comic books based on his movies: Clerks, Chasing Dogma, and Bluntman and Chronic.

Smith owns and operates Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, a Red Bank, New Jersey based store largely dedicated to merchandise related to his films. A second Stash in Los Angeles is in the works as well.

The Phantom Edit, an edited version of , was at one time rumored to be his creation, though he denied this. The phantom editor was later revealed to be Mike J. Nichols. For a time Smith was working on a script for a Superman movie, but the script was eventually written by Tim Burton. He also claims that the "hair gel" scene from There's Something About Mary was inspired by a deleted scene from his movie Mallrats.

Table of contents

1 Filmography (as writer and director)
2 See also
3 External links

Filmography (as writer and director)

External links

See Kevin Smith (actor) for the New Zealand actor who appeared in and .