Kevin Smith Biography

Fast Facts

• Briefly attended Vancouver Film School and went to work at a convenience store in Leonardo, N
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• Was inspired to write his breakthrough movie, Clerks, after watching Slacker, Richard Linklater's 1991 independent comedy
• Filmed Clerks in three weeks at the convenience store where he worked for only $27,575; raised part of the budget by selling his extensive comic-book collection
• Served as executive producer on Ben Affleck's Good Will Hunting, with whom he often works (Chasing Amy; Jersey Girl)
• Secretly married his wife at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch
• Named daughter Harley Quinn after The Joker's girlfriend in the Batman comic books
• Wrote Daredevil, Green Arrow and Spider-Man comics
• Received honorary doctorates of humane letters from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2000 and Montclair State University in 2004
• In 2010, was famously forced to leave a Southwest Airlines flight for being overweight