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Studying the Auteur Theory: Kevin Smith As a young teen growing up in Redbank, New Jersey, Kevin Smith worshipped such movies as Porkys’s, The Last American Virgin, as well as, John Landis and John Hughes films. These movies are the basis of his films that he has made as a director/writer. His directorial debut in 1994 was a low budget film, Clerks. This film collected the Filmmakers Trophy Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and the International Critics Week Award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival that same year. Working with friend Scott Mosier and their production company, named View Askew, Smith wrote and directed the independent films Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma. Through his writing and directing Smith is known for his auteurism, or the Auteur Theory which is the philosophy that the director is the central intelligence behind a film and deserves authorial status and possessory credit, putting his or her personal imprint on the film. At times, the director may put his or her sense of camera work or themes and ideologies into the film. This is what Kevin Smith is known for respectively (http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/biography.asp?ctr=650148). In all of Kevin Smith’s movies, he uses