On August 2, 1970 Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He grew up with the influence of comic books, superheroes and the art of film. While watching his dad work a job he truly despised as a postal worker, Kevin gained a large amount of motivation to never work a job that he would hate the same way his father did. Smith would grow up as an overweight child, and has attributed this characteristic to his ability to observe life through a comedic looking glass, and would one day take that talent and transfer it into his films.
The day he would turn 21, he visited a local movie theater and viewed Richard Linklater`s comedy film titled Slacker (1991). This film became the main source, and general awakening, that he would one day use to become a writer, director and producer for almost all of his films. Kevin Smith has used many mediums to explain why it became his influence and how it inspired his desire to make film, including his popular podcast titled Smodcast, where he would say ``so you can make a movie about anything, apparently.” Which would then carry on his desire to make a little
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