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Kevin Smith Wiki Biography

Kevin Smith is a well-known director, producer, comic book writer, comedian and an actor. Kevin is known for creating such movies as “Clerks”, “Red State”, “Cop Out” and others. During his career, Smith has been nominated for and has won many awards. Some of them include a Harvey Award, Wizard Fan Award, Cannes Film Festival Award, MTV Movie Award, Independent Spirit Award and others. As mentioned before, Kevin is also known as a writer and has published several books and created comics. He even has the comic book store called “Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash”.

So how rich is Kevin Smith? It is estimated that Kevin’s net worth is $25 million, and this sum might change in the future as Kevin is still working as a director and also as a writer.

Kevin Patrick Smith, better recognized as Kevin Smith, was born in 1970, in New Jersey. Kevin studied at Henry Hudson Regional High School. In 1994 Kevin created his first movie, entitled “Clerks”. The movie was acclaimed by the critics and even won him an award at the Sundance Film Festival. From that time Kevin Smith’s net worth began growing. His second movie, called “Mallrats”, did not achieve as much success as his first movie. In 1999 Kevin created another interesting movie, entitled “Dogma”. During the making of this movie, Kevin worked with Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, George Carlin and many others. Later, Kevin worked with other actors in his other movies and even became friends with them. Step by step Smith became more and more experienced and known in the movie industry. In 2006 he released a sequel to his first movie, “Clerks II”. This, of course, added a lot to Kevin Smith’s net worth. Other movies created by Kevin include “Yoga Hosers”, “Jersey Girl”, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and others.

In addition to his successful career as a director and producer, Kevin has also written several famous books. His first book, “Silent Bob Speaks”, was released in 2005. Other books released by him are “Shootin’ the Sh*t with Kevin Smith”, “My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith” and “Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”. He has also written many comic books, such as “Green Arrow”, “Bluntman & Chronic”, “Green Hornet”, “Chasing Dogma”, “The Bionic Man” and many others. Undoubtedly, these have had a huge impact on the growth of Kevin’s net worth.

In his private life, Kevin is married to Jennifer Schwalbach Smith and they have a daughter.

All in all, it could be said that Kevin Smith is one of the most successful screenwriters and directors in the movie industry. During his career, Kevin has created many popular and interesting movies and has also written popular comic books as well as collections of essays. Kevin Smith is 44 years-old, so he can still create many more movies. If this will happen, there is a chance that Smith’s net worth will grow in the future.

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Kevin Smith Quick Info

Kevin Smith Trademarks

1. His films are frequently set in his home state of New Jersey.
2. The soundtracks to his movies typically consist of 90s alternative rock bands
3. Characters often have an obnoxious but loyal and lifelong friend who are often the cause of conflict but ultimately redeem themselves through their actions. (Randal Graves in _Clerks (1994)_ and Clerks II (2006), Brodie in Mallrats (1995), Banky in Chasing Amy (1997), Zack in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008))
4. Long Coat
5. His Beard
6. Always uses a “The director would like to thank” special credit column near the end of his films’ end credits. He usually thanks, among others, God, his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Scott Mosier, Jason Mewes, and the film’s crew. He also 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.
7. Uses the “sh” rule at least once in every movie. Example “Breakfast Shmrekfast”.
8. Frequently shoots scenes based in or outside of Quick Stop convenience stores.
9. The hero of each of his films usually has a best friend who wears a backwards baseball cap (e.g. Randal Graves in Clerks (1994), Banky Edwards in Chasing Amy (1997), and Silent Bob in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)).
10. Frequently refers to characters from his View Askewniverse movies. For example, in Chasing Amy (1997), Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams) tells Holden (Ben Affleck) that she slept with Shannon Hamilton. Shannon Hamilton was the character Ben Affleck played in Mallrats (1995). Smith also frequently references Julie Dwyer dying in the YMCA pool from Clerks (1994).
11. Every one of his View Askewniverse movies happens to feature either one of Smith’s ex-girlfriends or his wife: Kimberly Loughran appeared in Clerks (1994) as Heather Jones and in Dogma (1999) as the woman in the elevator. Joey Lauren Adams appeared in Mallrats (1995) as Gwen Turner and in Chasing Amy (1997) as Alyssa Jones. Smith’s wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) as Missy, Clerks II (2006) as Emma Bunting, and Betsy in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008).
12. Frequently shows a character or group of characters reacting to a strange action happening off screen (Dogma (1999): Poop monster gang fight; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001): Biggs and Van Der Beek monkey fight; Jersey Girl (2004): Ollie busting in on Gertie and Bryan; Clerks II (2006): The donkey show).
13. References Hockey in all of his films: Clerks (1994): Dante closes the store to play hockey; Mallrats (1995): Renee breaks up with Brodie because he is playing Sega Hockey; Chasing Amy (1997): Holden and Alyssa break up at a hockey game; Dogma (1999): Azrael’s imp sidekicks are dressed as hockey players and carry hockey sticks.
14. Insists on editing all of his films. The only exception was Mallrats (1995), edited by Paul Dixon.
15. Frequently references Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) and its sequels, John Hughes movies, Steven Spielberg movies, Degrassi High (1987), and comic books.
16. Frequently casts himself, Brian O’Halloran, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, and Scott Mosier (who also acts as producer on all of Smith’s films).
17. Witty yet profane dialogue laced with pop-culture references

Kevin Smith Quotes

• [on Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)’s disappointing box office performance] I was depressed, man. I wanted that movie to do so much better. I’m sitting there thinking, ‘That’s it, that’s it, I’m gone, I’m out. The movie didn’t do well and I killed Seth Rogen’s career! This dude was on a roll until he got in with the likes of me. I’m a career killer! Judd’s [Judd Apatow] going to be pissed, the whole Internet’s going to be pissed because they all like Seth, and the only reason they like me anymore is because I was involved with Seth! And now I fuckin’ ruined that. It was like high school. I was like, ‘I’m a dead man. I’ll be the laughing stock.’
• [on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)] Remember before when we were talking about The Flash (2014), and that it has heart, humor, and spectacle. The movie I felt like didn’t really have a heart. It was certainly fucking humorless, there was nothing funny going on in that world whatsoever, but it had lots of spectacle. Like you can’t take that away from Zack Snyder. Boy, he knows how to like compose a frame and how to setup a shot. Beautiful visual stylist but you need more than just the pictures, you need like characterization and these characters seemed off character, particularly Superman. [2016]
• [on directing Bruce Willis in Cop Out (2010)] He turned out to be the unhappiest, most bitter, and meanest emo-bitch I’ve ever met at any job I’ve held down. And mind you, I’ve worked at Domino’s Pizza. [from his memoir “Tough Sh-t”]
• [on Reese Witherspoon] She’s a dick. I was at some party with Joey Lauren Adams and Reese had just got a part Joey was hoping to get. So Joey said, ‘Hey Reese, I just wanted to say congratulations. I think you’ll do really great with the part.’ And Reese just gave this dead-eyed look and was like, ‘Whatever…’ What a f**king douchebag. At this point she wasn’t even the Reese Witherspoon that everybody mistakenly knows and loves. She was Reese Witherspoon circa S.F.W. (1994). To have that kind of attitude back then; I guess she was meant for stardom.
• I liked Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns (2006). I thought in honoured the Dick Donner versions, but what I’ve seen from Man of Steel (2013) has pulled me right in. There is one moment where Superman is speeding Lois Lane away from danger and we get a glimpse of her face, and to me it looks like she’s saying, ‘If this dude slows down we are dead’. If you can show me something that beautiful that brings me as close to the comic book experience as humanly possible, you’ve got my money.
• [on Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia (1999)] I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work.
• Storytelling is my currency. It’s my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That’s why I’m always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
• [on involving himself with online podcasts] If I’m a white noise in your life, if I’m this background voice that’s comforting to know it’s there, I could go a lot farther than I ever could’ve gone with film. I can go weird places with you – in the bathroom, on the bus on the worst plane ride of your life. You can’t demand that the audience do ‘appointment viewing’ anymore. You have to make it as easy and accessible as possible.
• [on cinematographer David Klein] I’m not much of a sports guy, but I do like hockey very much, and they say great lines always find each other. Same thing with Klein. He can finish a visual sentence that I can start to express but can’t finish. It just makes me laugh – I became a better filmmaker standing next to the same knuckleheaded kid I’d met in film school years ago.
• [on making Red State (2011)] Look at all these beautiful people making this movie, cinching their belts and doing it for next-to-nothing. Ben (Affleck) recently sent me an email going ‘Dude, I don’t know how you make this for four million bucks. It doesn’t look like a four-million-dollar movie’. That’s because nobody got paid, dude.
• (On Slacker (1991)) It was the movie that got me off my ass; it was the movie that lit a fire under me, the movie that made me think, “Hey, I could be a filmmaker.” And I had never seen a movie like that before ever in my life.
• It’s too expensive, that’s the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That’s not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not. You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can’t get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it’s so crushing.
• I was a fan of the Daredevil and Green Arrow characters, so it seemed logical to write them. Now I’m kind of interested in taking obscure characters and seeing if we can turn them into top ten books. I mean, DD and GA had somewhat built-in audiences, so there was a basis to work from. But could we take a Doctor Strange book and put that in the top ten? That’d be a fun challenge.
• It wasn’t the first comic I ever actually READ, but the first comic I remember slapping down hard-earned money for was a ‘Superman Family’ Annual in which the first story featured a married Lois and Superman waking up on a cloud. I remember being oddly aroused by the whole thing. I mean, the implication was that these two were fucking.
• I once wrote a horror screenplay for my friend Vincent to make when he was in high school that was close to Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) (aka “The Seventh Seal”). Very psychological horror stuff. A lot of the religious elements in the script ended up in Dogma (1999).
• There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be. People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. After something like Mallrats (1995) or Jersey Girl (2004), the expectations are in the toilet. People are like, “He’s over, he’s done”. So it’s easier to be, like, “Ta-da, I’m not”. It’s a much more comfortable place to work from. When you have an escalating career, and every time you have to outdo yourself, I couldn’t handle that kind of pressure. But having to outdo Jersey Girl (2004)? Not very difficult.
• Each flick I’ve done is kind of a snapshot of where I was in my life when I wrote it; Clerks II (2006) really speaks to where I am in life at the moment. You don’t have to be an analyst to look at the movie and go, “The Quick Stop means a little more than the Quick Stop, and Florida represents something more than just going to Florida”. That’s kind of where I am. There’s definitely something bittersweet about arriving at Clerks II (2006).
• Now you’ve gotta spend two thousand bucks to stay at my house. And for five, I’ll let you photograph my wife in the shower.
• [In response to Tim Burton claiming he doesn’t read comics] Well that would explain Batman (1989).
• On considering dropping out of The Green Hornet (2011) film (August 19, 2004): “Right after Jersey Girl (2004) came out and kind of underperformed, I was just like, “I got no business making large-budget movies”. I should always make movies that cost less than 10 million bucks… I just don’t think somebody like me should be in charge of big-budget movies. I’m too interested in dialogue, and dialogue and big budgets just don’t blend very well”.
• The Jay character is kind of based on who Jason was when he was about 14 years old. In the movies he’s a bit more well spoken than he was at that age. Silent Bob – there is no affiliation to myself. I needed a guy to stand next to Jay and not say much, being that Jason was going to be saying a lot. – on resemblances between real life and his characters.
• I wasn’t disappointed by Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). I know a lot of people were but I was one of those cats who wasn’t. You go in with low expectations, or not expecting it to bring you right back to the days of your youth, but it’s kind of a fun movie.
• They’re like, ‘I can’t believe Kevin Smith gets into comics, and all he can do is a superhero comic.’ Well, that’s what I want to do.
• [on the hoopla over homosexual slurs in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)] “Gay or straight has never been a big issue with me. Sex is sex, as far as I’m concerned. Some cats dig on the opposite gender, and some cats dig on their own. Sexual identity will always be as mystifying as why The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) was once the number one television show in our country: there’s no point in getting bent out of shape about it; it just IS. Some cats will always gravitate toward “Daisy Duke”, and some will always pine over Boss Hogg”.

Kevin Smith Important Facts

• When asked who his favorite actor to work with was, he said his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith. After some negative critical reactions for his film _Cop Out_ (2010), he was in a particular defiant mood while filming _Tusk_(2014). Harley Quinn was set to cameo, as well as Johnny Depp. Harley Quinn suggested that her friend and Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose Depp act in the scene with her. Because of that, Smith felt that he was able to forget the negative critics and have fun, and even said that she made him want to be a filmmaker “more than anyone in this world.”.
• Is a huge fan of Degrassi High (1987). After Clerks (1994) got picked up and he came into some money he bought the entire series on tape. At the time it was only available commercially and not for private use, and so he ended up paying $6000 for them.
• Kevin’s paternal grandfather was of Irish, English, and distant German, descent. Kevin’s three other grandparents were all of German ancestry.
• Big fan and friend of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. When Smith finished Clerks II (2006) he invited Rodriguez and Tarantino to be among the first to view it.
• In one of his podcasts, Smith revealed that the name of Silent Bob came, in part, from a character in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), Bob the Goon, citing in particular Jack Nicholson’s (The Joker) line “Bob, gun” and the character stoically handing him a gun.
• He is an Edmonton Oilers ice hockey fan.
• Son of Donald E. Smith and Grace Smith.
• Kevin founded the podcast network, ‘The SModcast Podcast Network’ on January 1st, 2010.
• Shares the same birthday with his brother, Donald Smith.
• Hosts a weekly podcast with friend and producer Scott Mosier called “SModcast”. Guest hosts have included friends Bryan Johnson, Walter Flanagan, Malcolm Ingram, Jason Mewes, his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith and his daughter Harley Quinn Smith. This podcast has expanded into an entire network called “The SModcast Podcast Network” at smodcast.com.
• At one point was sought after to direct Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) with Ben Affleck in the lead.
• At the height of controversy over his film Dogma (1999), Kevin Smith and his friend Bryan Johnson participated in a protest against the film at an Eatontown, New Jersey, movie theater. Smith and Johnson hand-made signs that read “‘Dogma’ is dogshit” and and “To Hell With ‘Dogma.'” The protest, which was supposed to attract hundreds of demonstrators, was only attended by about 15 people. Smith was recognized and interviewed by a local TV news reporter, to whom he refused to admit that he really was Kevin Smith.
• Created an online short film contest called Movies Askew in 2005. The twelve finalists were screened in Hollywood for Smith and a famous panel of judges that included Jason Mewes and Donnie Darko (2001) director Richard Kelly. Duane Graves took home the Grand Prize for his documentary Up Syndrome (2000), granting him the privilege of working with Smith on one of his future projects.
• Is a huge fan of Road House (1989).
• Graduated from Henry Hudson Regional High School (Highlands, New Jersey) in 1988.
• Is an AMPAS member.
• Directed Reaper: Pilot (2007) just to prove to himself that he could direct a script that he did not write.
• Wrote all of his own dialog for the five episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001) that he appeared on.
• As a teenager his girlfriend’s mother wrote “Kevin Smith will never be a famous writer.” on a sheet of paper and told him that if he ever proved it wrong that she would eat the paper. He still has the sheet of paper, and considers the mother a close friend. However he does not speak with the former girlfriend anymore.
• Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.
• Has two dogs named “Mulder” and “Scully”.
• Wrote and acted in comedy sketches in the town’s annual talent show. His comedic writing even made the local papers.
• Was approached by Dimension chairman Bob Weinstein to do a Jay and Silent Bob/Hellraiser crossover movie in the same vein as the old Abbott and Costello meets the Wolfman type crossovers. Smith declined.
• Played goalie during games of street hockey with his friends Bryan Johnson, Walter Flanagan, and Ed Hapstak.
• Had an idea for an science fiction alien themed story that was to be a part of the film anthology called “Alien Love Triangle” but his idea was never used. He has stated an interest in turning his idea into a feature one day.
• Wrote and produced with Jason Lee, a pilot for a sitcom, to star Lee, called “Hiatus”. The premise had Lee’s character coming back home to open up a comic book store after living in California for a few years, trying to make it as a struggling actor. Unknown to his family and friends, he was actually a porno star for a while,when he didn’t land any “legitimate” work.
• He was the first and only guest on Michael Moore’s Fox pilot The Michael Moore Show (1997).
• In the fall of 2002, the town of Paulsboro in New Jersey named a street after him: Kevin Smith Way. This was in response to Smith using the town to film in.
• After Mallrats (1995), pitched an idea he had for a “Jaws 5” to Universal. They gave him the go ahead to write a treatment, but he had other projects to work on.
• Shortly after Clerks (1994) was released theatrically, Smith taught an acting class at his old high school, Henry Hudson Regional.
• During his childhood, he was a big fan of Tom Savini’s special effects work.
• Once considered buying a local movie theater in Red Bank New Jersey and showing all kinds of movies. He said one week could be Scorsese themed with Taxi Driver (1976) and Mean Streets (1973), then the next week could be superhero themed, like the original Batman and Superman movies.
• The reason why there hasn’t been a Jay and Silent Bob video game yet, is because Smith wants to be fully involved in the game’s creation and he simply does not have the time. He does insist there will one day exist a Jay and Silent Bob video game.
• Wrote a short story in his college creative writing course about a serial killer, who also happened to be a priest. He received the best grade in the class.
• Once tried to buy a warehouse near his View Askew production office in Red Bank, New Jersey, to convert into sound stages for independent films. He even approached Miramax president Harvey Weinstein to split the bill. However, the warehouse owner wanted too much money.
• In high school, he video taped his school’s sporting events and town meetings for the local cable access station.
• Tried to produce remakes for C.H.U.D. (1984) and Race with the Devil (1975).
• Has stated that he had an idea for a children’s book and that he’d like to write it before his little girl reaches her teens.
• Wanted to write and direct a big screen adaptation of the book “Sex and Rockets”.
• Wrote a script called “Busing” in 1994 for Hollywood Pictures. It was described as “Clerks in a restaurant”. Parts of this script became Clerks II (2006).
• Has said that after his career is over he’d like to teach film and creative writing courses at a college.
• Once wrote and produced two pilots for sitcoms. One was called, “Hating Hal” and the other one was “Hiatus”.
• Pitched a superhero movie to Miramax in 1999 and Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein loved it. It was described as a “Justice League” type of superhero team that has to disband because of the government. Once on their own, the film would follow the same type of format used in Pulp Fiction (1994) which would be stories inter-connected. In the end, the team would have to unite to defeat one of their own, turned villainous. Smith just never got around to writing a full script. It was also pitched to HBO as a possible series.
• Was a guest critic for Ebert & Roeper while Roger Ebert was recovering from throat surgery. He reviewed the films for the weekend of August 12-13, 2006. He gave thumbs-up to World Trade Center (2006), Step Up (2006), and Half Nelson (2006). He gave thumbs-down to Scoop (2006).
• Had a long running feud with Jeff Anderson shortly after Clerks (1994) was released and ended just before production began on Dogma (1999). This explains Anderson’s absence in Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997).
• Has maintained that had he not had the success with Clerks (1994), he would still be a clerk at the Quick Stop and RST Video in Leonardo, New Jersey.
• Favorite bands: The Police, Talking Heads, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, E Street Band, and The Cure.
• At one point or another, he was set to write (and in some cases direct) the big- screen versions of Scooby-Doo (2002) and Alien Love Triangle (2008).
• 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.
• Was at one point attached to write the script for Scary Movie 3 (2003).
• Biography/bibliography in: “Contemporary Authors”. New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 408-413. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
• While filming Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), accidentally mispronounced Eliza Dushku’s last name, and subsequently simply called her “Duck Shoot.”
• 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).
• In a review of Clerks (1994), one critic described his writing style as “David Mamet meets Howard Stern.”
• 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.
• His daughter plays his character, Silent Bob, as a small child in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).
• Cast Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma (1999) after learning Rickman was a fan of Chasing Amy (1997).
• 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”.
• Shot a pictorial of his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, for Playboy Magazine.
• Attended Vancouver Film School but dropped out halfway through.
• Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Illinois Wesleyan University on May 7, 2000.
• Did some rewrites for Coyote Ugly (2000).
• 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.
• Graduated from Henry Hudson Regional in Highlands, New Jersey in 1988.
• Brother of Virginia Smith and Donald Smith.
• Sold his comic book collection for money to film Clerks (1994) and after the film was a success he bought the collection back.
• Owns a comic book store, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey.
• Smith’s daughter, Harley Quinn Smith was born. She is named after the character, Harley Quinn, in the Batman: The Animated Series (1992)(The animated series). [June 1999]
• 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.
• Suspected that he was hired to write the doomed “Superman Lives” script after someone at Warner Brothers saw the exchange in Mallrats (1995) 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 and said, “This has the best dialog in the script”. Executives responded, “This is a toy movie. People don’t care how good the dialog is”. The script was eventually rejected by Tim Burton, who elected to personally rewrite it.

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