Posted by Michael Raben at 63.204.234.5 on November 28, 2000 at 13:11:47:
In Reply to: Question for Mr. Smith: Re: Luck's role posted by RedShoes60 on November 28, 2000 at 11:23:51:
: Anyway, I was thinking today that luck tends to play a pretty big role in any success story (being in the right place at the right time, bumping into the right people, etc.), and I was wondering what you thought was the luckiest thing that happened to you over the course of your career as a filmmaker.
While I'm sure Kevin will know what his luckiest moment in the entertainment business was, I'll offer up a decent guess. At the first 'Clerks' screening at the IFFM in New York (which I believe was a morning screening), of the few people in the audience (a dozen or so) sat one indie 'Heavy' Bob Hawk. Mr. Hawk was instrumental in getting the film to John Pierson; together the two got it into Sundance. The rest is history.
Now, I'm a big believer in the cream rising to the top, but who's to say that anything would have happened at all with 'Clerks' if Bob Hawk hadn't have been in the audience that monrning and taken a shining to the film.
Just a guess...
Always,
Michael Raben