There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are. It starts, like all faiths, with a belief-a belief predicated more on whimsy than reality. And you've gotta believe for everybody else, too-until you can show them proof. If you're lucky, someone starts believing with you-first theoretically, then in practice. And two people believing are the start of a congregation. You build a congregation of believers and eventually you set out to craft a cathedral. Sometimes it's just a church; sometimes it turns out to be a chapel. Folks who don't build churches will try to tell you how you're doing it wrong, even as your steeple breaks the clouds. Never listen.

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2 1970) is an American screenwriter actor film producer and director as well as a popular comic book writer author comedian/raconteur and internet radio personality. Smith's first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey and while not strictly sequential they frequently feature crossover plot elements character.

He co-hosts several weekly podcasts that are recorded at various locations around the world and released on SModcast Internet Radio. Smith is well known for participating in long humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith. Smith also directed and produced films such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out as well as the horror film Red State.