Kevin Smith - Explaining the meaning of life as an artist

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
  • This video is from his newest video Q&A session "Kevin Smith-Burn In Hell"
    One of the most inspiring stories we have ever heard from him.
    THIS IS A MUST WATCH.
    Everybody needs to see this.

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  • @joshking2626
    @joshking2626 5 років тому +41

    Kevin Smith does not get enough credit. His thought process is inspiring

    • @thealaskan1635
      @thealaskan1635 5 років тому +1

      The difference is he's one of us. And he was lucky enough to not put up with all the crap from movie studios. They do surveys and they'd too much rewrites on scripts to appeal to everyone. Then they overcopy other artists and put crap in movies like bullet time. Letterman said Hollywood CEOs are pinheads. He was telling the truth. Both Kevin and us were lucky he didn't have to put up with that crap

    • @DiggitySlice
      @DiggitySlice 3 роки тому +1

      @@thealaskan1635 hahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA
      He's a shill through and through

    • @apostolosfilippos
      @apostolosfilippos 3 роки тому

      Please comment after watching the new he-man reboot :)

  • @11yearoldscene
    @11yearoldscene 11 років тому +50

    Dude, whenever I first heard this I literally cried. No joke... Made me feel like I actually have a place in this world.

  • @rikkihill22
    @rikkihill22 10 років тому +124

    This vid changed how i think about life, had a terrible time in 2012 and this vid helped me to embrace my own creativity and in 2013 i ran my own music festival. Best thing i ever did.

    • @postatrandom6263
      @postatrandom6263 5 років тому +8

      Whatever you face in life. Remember the best part, is you are you. You got this. I don't know you but I'm proud of you for taking charge. Cheers

    • @nebulous8389
      @nebulous8389 4 роки тому +2

      Awesome!!!!

    • @peter-shauntyrell5613
      @peter-shauntyrell5613 4 роки тому +1

      Is right mate

    • @xColinMalarkeyx
      @xColinMalarkeyx 3 роки тому +1

      That’s awesome dude

  • @GinniGee
    @GinniGee 10 років тому +40

    My motto, since starting my [micro] business 13 years ago has been, "Don't die wondering" and I've lived by that every day

  • @nortonman1178
    @nortonman1178 8 років тому +57

    This speech inspired me to make a comic book, and fund it through Kickstarter, as well as do a Podcast.

    • @chrisszczesiul837
      @chrisszczesiul837 8 років тому +1

      How is that going for you?

    • @nortonman1178
      @nortonman1178 8 років тому +14

      The first Kickstarter was successful and I'm doing the next issue now. The podcast is hit and miss... mostly miss. But still...

    • @chrisszczesiul837
      @chrisszczesiul837 8 років тому +8

      Can you give me a link? Thats so awesome!

    • @juliogalvan2625
      @juliogalvan2625 5 років тому +1

      Hey man! I love comics, thats bad ass you did it!!! If ya ever wanna shoot me a copy :3

  • @Drellistenstomusic
    @Drellistenstomusic 8 років тому +50

    "Live a why not life." I like that.

  • @Brennan163
    @Brennan163 9 років тому +147

    It's also worth remembering that discouraging an artist LITERALLY caused World War II.

    • @Iratherbeher
      @Iratherbeher 8 років тому

      +jeeshwa123 HAHAHAHAHA

    • @Rensune
      @Rensune 7 років тому +2

      Dan Brennan He wasn't a good artist.
      He did have the makings of a Great Architect, tho

    • @Deimus333
      @Deimus333 6 років тому

      Hahahhahahahahaaha yes

    • @spikeep6141
      @spikeep6141 3 роки тому

      Huh. Well... That is certainly what I would have to call a *Radical Interpretation of Events.*
      And I mean, for one thing, it wasn't all *just* for that reason, and that reason alone.... [ I understand, for instance, that a certain Lady of The Night, who was of the Jewish persuasion once pointed and laughed at the size of his genetalia, for instance -- or.... No, wait... I think I might be confusing Young Adolf's trauma with somebody else entirely -- possibly Osama Bin Laden, maybe... ]
      But in the words of Jar-Jar Binks, as far as Smart-assed Comments go, *Ah. Yousa Point is... Well Seen.*

    • @ballisticmonkey999
      @ballisticmonkey999 3 роки тому +6

      "Never had the makings of a varsity artist."

  • @KevinoftheCosmos
    @KevinoftheCosmos 8 років тому +20

    My mother just passed today, I needed to hear this. Now I'm going to see her body

    • @HovaNirvana
      @HovaNirvana 7 років тому

      Kevin Carpenter Just found out about my grandmother today. Came to hear this.

    • @JOHNMARCEY
      @JOHNMARCEY 6 років тому

      Kevin Carpenter 😭

    • @JOHNMARCEY
      @JOHNMARCEY 6 років тому

      HovaNirvana 😭

    • @danpartridge8584
      @danpartridge8584 3 роки тому

      Lost my Mom in 2018. It's not really something you ever fully recover from. But don't let it define you, let it refine you. Corny, I know -- but it's worked for me. Be well ✌

  • @AbzArt
    @AbzArt 9 років тому +39

    well that..was unexpectedly beautiful and powerful to me. FUCKIN brilliant

  • @ScottRicketts
    @ScottRicketts 12 років тому +12

    I have always had a lot of respect for Kevin Smith and this is one of the most inspiring things I've ever heard.

  • @RunawayKiwi
    @RunawayKiwi 4 роки тому +5

    Random Dude: asks a question about time management
    Kevin Smith: 10 minute motivational speech and incredible life advice

  • @SirHatchporch
    @SirHatchporch 12 років тому +8

    I first heard this story when he was on Joe Rogan's podcast a while back and it hit me so hard that I made a clip of it and uploaded it here. I'm glad he's decided to immortalize it in one of his specials. It might be the best story he's ever told and it bears repeating.

  • @alexkewin2782
    @alexkewin2782 7 років тому +15

    this man inspired me to make a career in film and its because it so moving and beautiful that anyone inspired by art needs to watch it

  • @postatrandom6263
    @postatrandom6263 5 років тому +11

    One of my God damn heros right here.

  • @Netman0007
    @Netman0007 11 років тому +5

    This was fantastic. Kevin is a great man. What a great guy.
    That story about his father dying, screaming he's on fire he's on fire and begging for water...I too have heard stories about people dying like that from people in hospitals. That is scary as shit. That scares the hell out of me. EVERY one of us will die some day. I think Kevin is trying to tell us something here. God bless you, Kevin. You are an inspiration.

  • @HovaNirvana
    @HovaNirvana 7 років тому +6

    R.I.P. Lisa Spoonauer. Thank you for helping Kevin to take his shot.

  • @drpinkthepog23
    @drpinkthepog23 12 років тому +4

    Very strong words. This helped me a lot. Thank you again Kevin smith for motivating me to do somethin with my life!

  • @merekatkat
    @merekatkat 3 роки тому +3

    Robbie Fox sent me here...and glad he did!

  • @JustinDiazJokes
    @JustinDiazJokes 11 років тому +4

    I am so motivated to better things in my life. This was worth watching

  • @sampsonraysimon
    @sampsonraysimon 3 роки тому +2

    Oh, man. That really got me.

  • @StarfieldRailway
    @StarfieldRailway 11 років тому +3

    I agree very much with his point, except for the part where he said he had no special talents. He is very talented at writing both comedy and drama. However, he would have never gotten anywhere with it in the public arena if he had not given a major effort.

  • @tombryant52jumpscoach
    @tombryant52jumpscoach 2 роки тому

    When I saw Clerks way back when it put a crack in the ice of the life I was living and wanted to break out of. It didn't break it a lot but it changed me for the better. It both comforted my disturbance and disturbed my comfortableness. I'm glad Kevin was a why-not person with filmmaking.

  • @chrisxavier3147
    @chrisxavier3147 11 років тому +4

    this is such a beautiful speech, always gives me chills

  • @jarianbrown
    @jarianbrown 10 років тому +12

    This is motivation.

  • @AustinHibblerComedy
    @AustinHibblerComedy 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for uploading this. I watched this years ago and it’s the whole reason I make UA-cam videos now.

  • @5assafras
    @5assafras Рік тому

    That was fkn beautiful. I lost my dad in Feb and this hit home. In a good way. Thank you.

  • @blueskiesj
    @blueskiesj Рік тому

    he said he has no discernable talent
    could've fuckin fooled me
    even if I didn't know who Kevin Smith was, this entire speech alone is proof that he's skilled with words and skilled as a speaker.

  • @rmjmoviereviews6876
    @rmjmoviereviews6876 11 років тому +3

    Hands down one of the most inspirational stories I've heard from a filmmaker.

  • @HighPriestofLemuria
    @HighPriestofLemuria 12 років тому +2

    Thanks for posting this, it was what I needed to hear when I needed to hear it.

  • @darkwing954
    @darkwing954 Місяць тому

    Happy 54th Birthday to Kevin Smith. Live a why not Life. 🤟

  • @sqweebel1
    @sqweebel1 12 років тому +1

    this is unbelievably inspiring. kevin smith for life

  • @trevorduncan9580
    @trevorduncan9580 2 роки тому

    Don't care what anyone says... Kevin Smith is the shit. Good dude. Hope to meet him someday and just give him a high five

  • @manuelcamilocepedamartinez5858
    @manuelcamilocepedamartinez5858 7 років тому +6

    so fucking brillant

  • @spicyMcHAGGIS9green
    @spicyMcHAGGIS9green 12 років тому +1

    That "why not" thing...I've been telling people that shit for years. I'm glad to know one of my hero's thinks the same way as me.

  • @derricktanyashighwaytohealth

    Why not!!! ❤ So powerful ❤ Thanks for sharing your story Kevin.

  • @keefriff99
    @keefriff99 12 років тому +1

    My Dad is a retired postal worker. Fuck, did THIS hit home...totally welling up with tears, at work no less.

  • @PaulRizzo
    @PaulRizzo 12 років тому +2

    Well said Kev. Pure awesomeness.

  • @mediocreaestheticentertain7239
    @mediocreaestheticentertain7239 4 роки тому +6

    Fan: Hey Kevin, how do you manage your time?
    Kevin: Welllll...
    -
    Edit: In all seriousness this was wonderful

  • @Metalgearhead88
    @Metalgearhead88 11 років тому +1

    thank you for this, your message has just affected approx 6 more lives and you for sure got your point across.... My sister and goddaughter are artists and i support them hoping their dreams will come true. I just shared your video with them on facebook as well as some other friends. THANK YOU KEVIN!!!!!!!!

  • @Mr.Monky420
    @Mr.Monky420 6 років тому +3

    Such a good dude.

  • @ZiLBERLaND
    @ZiLBERLaND  12 років тому

    This show is called Kevin Smith - Burn in hell. For those looking for it, it's on Netflix. Or just download it off a torrent and then buy it when it's released on DVD. or just buy RED STATE on DVD or Blu-ray to support Kevin Smith's production company.

  • @Z3sty367
    @Z3sty367 11 років тому +1

    Great share the vid,focus and work hard and never give up.

  • @ZiLBERLaND
    @ZiLBERLaND  12 років тому +1

    We are going to talk about this video on one of our upcoming episode of Political Discontent Radio. Podcasts are available online as well as featured on iTunes. - To all artists out there, whether you are a writer, painter, illustrator, or just endless talkers like us... Never let go of your dreams. There are a million nay-sayers out there. It takes nothing but an encouraging word to support an artist.

  • @Dizzylittlelord
    @Dizzylittlelord 11 років тому +1

    this story is incredible

  • @jennykaye415
    @jennykaye415 2 роки тому

    I can only imagine what the guy who asked the question felt like during and after he posed it, thinking he was probably going to give some light hearted funny-smart answer....
    Every so often, I youtube the q&a from kent university (i think) specifically the parts about tim burton and prince bc it always makes me laugh, his storytelling is so good . But THis time I stumbled over here and got up feeling different. kevin came through.
    This entire clip was beautiful. Thank you.❤
    one gem of a quote from this diamond of a q&a:
    "Live a 'why not?' life man, because we're all gunna die fucking screaming, so make sure when you die screaming you're totally fulfilled, you're like 'I took all the shots- I did it!'...take the shot, the shot is always worth taking..."
    PS:And, YES @7:02-7:29 IS (sadly) A HUGE COMPLIMENT.His dad sounds like he was all a kid could wish for and what the world needs more of. Great tribute.

  • @wildbillbill2249
    @wildbillbill2249 3 роки тому

    I fucking love this guy.

  • @TheSuperQuail
    @TheSuperQuail 3 роки тому +1

    This man can recount his own Father's death in front of a crowd but breaks down watching Flash. Life is strange sometimes.

  • @241clearance5
    @241clearance5 2 роки тому

    My dad had night terrors when I was in my early teens, for my entire life I still wonder my father a wholesome friendly family man, worked for the city knew everyone called others boss or bud.
    His last night he had those night terrors where you can tell from Loud sharp moaning yells late at night and that time we tried to wake him it was done he had already passed from a heart attack in his sleep..
    Why did he have to be chased?
    What did he have to be afraid of?

  • @harpo103
    @harpo103 11 років тому +1

    WOW! That was really beautiful.

  • @strider119
    @strider119 11 років тому

    I'm not a Kevin Smith, really. I find he's up his own ass more often than not. I don't know how I winded up here, but I have to say ... this is simply inspiring. I'll give him all the credit in the world for this bit of wisdom.

  • @OzHenry
    @OzHenry 12 років тому

    And now I'm rolling a tear.
    Or 10

  • @buuzzsawtouchedme194
    @buuzzsawtouchedme194 7 років тому +2

    He was right when he said "never fucked a child", there too many child molesters and rapists these days, so in my book that is a positive (a positive if you don't do it).

  • @MsCygnusX1
    @MsCygnusX1 12 років тому +1

    Thanks for the sentiment ... Enjoy the fall =^}

  • @komozeck
    @komozeck 11 років тому +1

    thanks man.

  • @artu2302
    @artu2302 6 років тому +1

    Only amendment I make is not why not, but "alright how?" I don't know how to do anything like what he did but I will do my best to find out. "How do we do it?"

    • @neurohack9038
      @neurohack9038 3 роки тому

      That’s another version of “Why?” Which will give you the same wrong answer.

  • @UCFElCarnicero
    @UCFElCarnicero 5 років тому +1

    Okay. Im starting my DnD campaign again. Thanks pal!!

  • @RDBlade
    @RDBlade 12 років тому

    As I type this, I've got a lump in my throat. KS fucking rocks.

  • @Eastfist
    @Eastfist 11 років тому +1

    Fuck yeah. Words to live by.

  • @Iratherbeher
    @Iratherbeher 12 років тому

    man i almost cry!

  • @tmyoshimura621
    @tmyoshimura621 4 місяці тому

    🙏

  • @2287nemo
    @2287nemo 12 років тому +5

    He delivers a speech like this and then proceeds to claim he has no discernible talent... Bullsh*t, Mr. Smith, Bullsh*t....

  • @ZiLBERLaND
    @ZiLBERLaND  12 років тому

    Political Discontent Radio is prominently featured on itunes and Stitcher Radio

  • @ndcreativeimaging
    @ndcreativeimaging 12 років тому +2

    The one dislike on here is from the one cynical head in the house

  • @MsCygnusX1
    @MsCygnusX1 12 років тому

    If only I had any dreams left...Where was this video 25 years ago?

  • @raydehn5565
    @raydehn5565 3 роки тому

    I've operated plenty of heavy machinery and power tools in cannabis

  • @alidan
    @alidan 10 років тому +2

    one of the questions i asked myself was "how many people could you kill in one night if you had a silenced pistol and just went for a bodycount?"
    its something ill never find out... and hopefully never hear the answer too, but its one that nags in the back of my head.
    they shot everyone is happy no one takes.

    • @scattjax3908
      @scattjax3908 8 років тому

      +alidan Damn man, can you talk to your family or friends about that stuff?

    • @alidan
      @alidan 8 років тому

      group of my friends played through this hypothetical once.
      we came to the conclusion, that if you have a silencer, subsonic ammo, and either learn lockpicking or can break into a house quietly, you got from sun down to morning for completely unhindered 'progress' with an average of 3-4 people depending on neighborhood, with possibly 10 minutes a house comes to nearly 200, then you have the possibility that day one, no one is the wiser or you get the fuck outta dodge, and that would go on till caught.
      again, it's one of those questions you never will or never want to find the answer to.

    • @scattjax3908
      @scattjax3908 8 років тому

      leroy bronco Well that's not nice.

    • @timothygraham4304
      @timothygraham4304 6 років тому

      Hello. I want to check in. I hope you don't still feel that way and I feel terrible that you ever did.

  • @mesolovely1
    @mesolovely1 12 років тому

    omg! tears

  • @Mexicanseafooduk
    @Mexicanseafooduk 12 років тому

    wow...

  • @ryand76
    @ryand76 11 років тому

    Bad ASS!

  • @EuchridEucrow1
    @EuchridEucrow1 12 років тому

    Just a really nice fucking time

  • @Bassguy001
    @Bassguy001 12 років тому

    An interesting take on smoking pot. Health experts always say that marijuana is bad for short term memory. Maybe your brain needs to forget trivial shit to have room for ideas. Ideas will change the world, so smoke more pot

  • @DiggitySlice
    @DiggitySlice 3 роки тому +1

    "Shill, shill, and shill some more" - Kevin Smith

  • @madmanga64
    @madmanga64 12 років тому

    thats a cool dude right there for every one optimist there's like 20 nay-Sayers he so right try making a comic a posting it on a forum lol good example

  • @oh_rhythm
    @oh_rhythm 7 років тому

    strong shiet....

  • @amineroula
    @amineroula 12 років тому

    am fucking doing it

  • @IHVHandmind
    @IHVHandmind 9 років тому +2

    Am I the only one freaked out about his' father dying like that?....screaming....and talking about being on fire?.. like as in entering the gates of hell?.....Anyone else even remotely freaked out?

    • @deanfenech
      @deanfenech 9 років тому +4

      It's not hell, it's blood pressure, fever, ect... The body shutting down.

    • @OpenMawProductions
      @OpenMawProductions 9 років тому +2

      +IHVHandmind It has nothing. NOTHING. To do with Hell.

    • @IHVHandmind
      @IHVHandmind 9 років тому

      OpenMawProductions - Could you please, respectfully paraphrase and/or expound? - thank you.

    • @IHVHandmind
      @IHVHandmind 8 років тому

      Omar Haro - What I want to know is why people aren't even trying to talk about this here...you're the first one to comment and it's been like MONTHS since I posted this... I find that in and of itself alarming man.. Maybe it was his' unconscious fear...the emotions he registered, catching up with him at the end of his' life when it was pertinent for him to worry about it... know what I mean? Maybe on those sunday mornings as he sat on the couch...he wondered to himself... "maybe it's wrong that I didn't go to church like everyone else did"... and he had alot of unadressed fear that just stayed there... he finally ended up on his' deathbed and had to confront this... what else could he expect but flames? What I want to know is how many people who didn't have religious upbringings died and screamed about flames and things being hot?

    • @IHVHandmind
      @IHVHandmind 8 років тому

      Omar Haro - I think people would more likely have an open discourse about it. I think maybe what happens is people are just so freaked out by what they experience that they refrain, kind of like alien abductees. They're afraid people will think they're crazy.

  • @bababooeydude
    @bababooeydude 5 років тому

    Im to scared to be Kevin smith

  • @jettsteari3062
    @jettsteari3062 Рік тому +1

    this is brilliant.

  • @mangomariel
    @mangomariel 12 років тому +1

    :')

  • @lfmhucneedtank
    @lfmhucneedtank 12 років тому

    "fuckin"

  • @MrLonewolfozz
    @MrLonewolfozz 12 років тому

    fuck, screaming, what's that about? im on fire? what the f

  • @Runningwithfire
    @Runningwithfire 12 років тому +1

    Fucking. Onions.

  • @SuperLotus
    @SuperLotus 4 роки тому

    This reminded me how much I dislike my parents...good speech tho

  • @spicyMcHAGGIS9green
    @spicyMcHAGGIS9green 12 років тому

    Fuck.

  • @AgentQQ8
    @AgentQQ8 3 роки тому

    There's a lot of terrible layers in there.

  • @tcdahn7
    @tcdahn7 9 років тому

    15 people have no soul

    • @kontjong
      @kontjong 8 років тому

      +tcdahn7
      That makes you the the biggest philanthropist that have ever lived....

    • @tomasrosa5410
      @tomasrosa5410 7 років тому

      well, at least in two years only 5 more people felt the nees to do it.

  • @yibuu2
    @yibuu2 12 років тому

    ..wow...that was depressing

  • @sharonmontecalvo
    @sharonmontecalvo 12 років тому

    This would have been so much better without the constant f-bombs.