Daily Inspiration Quote by Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith is half-joking and half-confessing: his superpower is narrative, and his fear is that narrative is a luxury good. The line works because it turns the romantic myth of the artist into a survivalist thought experiment. Strip away the infrastructure of modern life and what happens to the guy whose main skill is making you laugh, cry, and buy a ticket? Smith answers with a grim punchline: in a true collapse, storytellers become expendable.

The intent is disarmingly personal. He frames storytelling not as a calling but as his only tradable asset, a statement that carries the insecurity of anyone whose labor is hard to quantify. “Whether in print, orating… having people acting it out” is a catalog of formats that doubles as a résumé and a defense. He’s insisting that the skill is real even if the economy around it feels flimsy.

The subtext is sharper than the self-deprecation suggests. Entertainment survives every era, but entertainers don’t always. Smith is pointing at how quickly “culture” gets demoted to “nonessential” when institutions panic: budgets tighten, audiences retreat, and the social permission to make art evaporates. Coming from a filmmaker whose brand is talky, fan-facing storytelling, it’s also a nod to the ecosystems that made him possible - theaters, publishers, conventions, disposable time - and how contingent they are.

Under the joke is a plea: don’t confuse utility with worth. Society doesn’t just collapse from empty stomachs; it collapses from empty meaning.