Suspects that he was hired to write the doomed "Superman Lives" (2000)script after someone at Warner Brothes saw the exchange in Mallrats between TS and Brodie involving Superman's reproductive habits. Warner executives told Smith to cut a romantic scene between Superman and Lois on Mt. Rushmore. Kevin complained said, "This has the best dialogue in the script." Executives responded, "This is a toy movie. People don't care how good the dialogue is."
Harley Quinn, Kevin's daughter's name, may also be a play on the Harlequin character from the Italian commedia dell'arte, the same reference that the creators of the Batman character were making.
Smith's daughter, Harley Quinn Smith was born. She is named after the character, Harley Quinn, in the "Batman" (1992)(The animated series). [26 June 1999]
Owns a comic book store, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey.
References in every movie to Julie Dwyer dying in the YMCA pool.
Frequently refers to characters from his own movies. Ex: In Chasing Amy, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams) tells Holden (Ben Affleck) that she slept with Shannon Hamilton. Shannon Hamilton was the character Ben Affleck played in Mallrats.
Dated Kimberly Loughran.
Dated Joey Lauren Adams.
Sold his comic book collection for money to film Clerks. (1994) and after the film was a success he bought the collection back.
Was hired to write the script for "Superman Lives" (2000). The script was rejected and Tim Burton elected to personally rewrite it.
Brother of Virginia Smith.
Runs a production company in New Jersey called ViewAskew.
Graduated from Henry Hudson Regional in Highlands, New Jersey in 1988
Wrote the first eight issues of the Marvel Knights series of Daredevil. In the graphic novel edition of all eight issues, the introduction was written by Ben Affleck. Kevin began writing the Green Arrow comics for DC.
Did some rewrites for Coyote Ugly (2000).
Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Illinois Wesleyan University on May 7, 2000.
Attended Vancouver Film School but dropped out halfway through.
Will not use the opening credit "A Kevin Smith Film" because he believes a film is the work of ALL the people involved, not just the director.
His all-time top 5 favorite movies (in no particular order) are: JFK (1991), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Jaws (1975), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Do the Right Thing (1989).
Appeared in the video for "Because I Got High" by Afroman with Jason Mews
Insists on editing all of his films.
Shot a pictorial of his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, for Playboy Magazine.
Because so many people asked him what happened to the characters Jay and Silent Bob between the films Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999), Smith wrote a graphic novel detailing their (mis)adventures between the two films. The book is entitled "Chasing Dogma".
Cast Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma (1999) after learning Rickman was a fan of Chasing Amy (1997).
His daughter plays his character, Silent Bob, as a small child in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).
In 2005, he appeared as himself in several episodes of the Canadian TV series teen drama, "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2001). Although he is married in real life, for his appearances on this show, Smith (as a character in the show) is said to be single, in order to allow him to make out with one of the main (adult) characters in the series.
In a review of Clerks. (1994), one critic described his writing style as "David Mamet meets Howard Stern."
Said in his DVD commentary of Dogma (1999) that actress Linda Fiorentino was very difficult to work with, even to the point that she wouldn't speak to him some days. In retrospect he says he wishes he had cast Janeane Garofalo as Bethany instead (Garofalo appears in Dogma as Liz at the abortion clinic).
While filming Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), accidentally mispronounced Eliza Dushku's last name, and subsequently simply called her "Duck Shoot."
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 408-413. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Was at one point attached to write the script for Scary Movie 3 (2003).
Won a Harvey Award, given for achievement in comic books, in 1999 for Best New Talent based on his work with Marvel's Daredevil as well as his comic book series "Clerks" and "Jay & Silent Bob" for Oni.
At one point or another, he was set to write (and in some cases direct) the big-screen versions of Scooby-Doo (2002), Alien Love Triangle (2002), Daredevil (2003), and "The Six-Million-Dollar Man".
Favorite bands: The Police, Talking Heads, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Cure.
