Kevin Smith


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BirthPlace
08/01/1970
Highlands, NJ
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Filmed Clerks in three weeks for only $27,575; raised part of the budget by selling his extensive comic-book collection; also saved money by hiring friends and local actors.
Named daughter Harley Quinn after The Joker's girlfriend in the Batman comic books.
Dropped out of The New School for Social Research after one year and only attended the Vancouver Film School for four months.
A huge Star Wars fan, he married his wife at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch.
Worked at a convenience store in Leonardo, NJ, which provided fodder for his breakthrough 1994 movie, Clerks.