Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 I am thrilled to have Kevin Smith as both an actor in Southland Tales as well as having his involvement in the prequel graphic novels for Southland Tales. The novels will give the die-hard fans more of an understanding of the back-story leading up the film`s theatrical release. I was literally losing five pounds per week on the set of Donnie Darko (2001). I was turning into this walking skeleton. I was sort of becoming Donnie Darko"! I started channeling Donnie and Jake [Gyllenhaal], playing Donnie, started channeling me. So it was sort of a subconscious thing going on between director and actor that I can`t even explain".
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The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.
(thinkexist.com)
It seems to not be an isolated incident.
(thinkexist.com)
I don`t believe there are mobs coming up the street at closing time, ... It is the responsibility of the license holder to control the patrons leaving his establishment.
(thinkexist.com)
It feels good to be home, to tell the truth.
(thinkexist.com)
He was just a super young fellow,
(thinkexist.com)
Sometimes people get close to him and it explodes through him - though of course it`s not him but Jesus Christ.
(thinkexist.com)
I`m very confident on a movie set. I know what I`m doing. I feel like that`s what I`ve been waiting my whole life to do.
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The director`s cut is a lot closer to what premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Then the movie didn`t sell for four months, and all the sudden the movie is STV, going straight to video, and it`s going to debut on the STARZ! Network. ...... at this point I was just desperately trying to salvage the film before they take it away from me and it debuts on the STARZ! Network and my career is over.
(imdb.com)
[In yet another development, a van believed driven by Furrow contained a book,] War Cycles, Peace Cycles, ... one of the principal ideologues of Christian Identity.
(thinkexist.com)
We`ve gotten to the point where it has gotten to the consistency, not just one complaint.
(thinkexist.com)
I did a grad film but that ended up hurting me more than it helped. My grad film was this over the top, gonzo, completely absurd sci-fi thing with non- professional actors. When you have actors in their fifties who are still doing student films, you`re not going to get top-of-the-line. It was a thing with a teleportation chamber, with a mad scientist and it was completely absurd. It cost $60,000, but it was completely campy, Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988) kinda stuff, so when people looked at the short, they went, `Well, is this how the acting is going to be in Donnie Darko (2001)? We don`t think you can direct actors if that`s anything to go by.` I was like, `Give me a good actor, and I can direct.` It became really frustrating when the short came up and it gave people a reason to pass. I would recommend that if you want to do a short, then do a short that`s one or two scenes from the feature you want to direct, so they can see it. They really can`t think outside the box. If you want to get a feature made, I would go and scrape together whatever money you can get, find an actor who can really pull off one of the parts and shoot a few scenes from your feature screenplay that can serve as a short. That`s the best evidence that you can give them. That`s what Wes Anderson did with Bottle Rocket, it was originally a short film. And it worked."
(imdb.com)
I don`t ever want to make an impersonal film.
(imdb.com)
I`ve seen an awful lot, and I hope I never see it again. You see real suffering from people. It does a number on you.
(thinkexist.com)
Trivia
Two of his favorite films are Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Mad Max 2 (1981). He has posters for them in his house.
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1997 Graduate of University of Southern California, where he studied Film.
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Received only $9,000 to write and direct Donnie Darko (2001) with a budget of 4.5 million dollars.
(imdb.com)
He was originally offered the chance to direct Valentine (2001), but turned the offer down.
(imdb.com)
His father worked for NASA on the Mars Viking Lander program in the 70s, developing the camera that made the first pictures from the Mars surface.
(imdb.com)
Originally wrote the screenplay for the movie Holes (2003) but after it was turned down, they had Louis Sachar do it instead. Kelly's script can be found on his website.
(imdb.com)
Born James Richard Kelly, son of Lane Kelly and Ennis Kelly. Grew up in Midlothian, Virginia.
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Wrote an unproduced script for Hal Lieberman and Jonathan Mostow's production company called "House at the End of the Street".
(imdb.com)
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