Lloyd Kaufman Quotes

• I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  People, Fat People, Fats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Hate, People, Rabbits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Believe, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Spirit, Creator

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• The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Hate, May, Never Forget

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  People, Dollars, World

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• I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Years, Two, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Lonely, Kids, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Jobs, New York, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Believe, Independent, Expression

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• I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Believe, Would Be, Ifs

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Independent, Foxes, Tvs

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Magic, Way, Digital

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• I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Zombie, Good Man, Chinese

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Directors, Goofy, Film

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Teacher, Hands, People

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Nice, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Jobs, Remakes, Heard

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2008.

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• Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  People, Would Be, World

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Writing, Italian, Play

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Gay, Men, Broadway

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Real, Hippie, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Christmas, People, Racist

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• My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Yale, Fans, Roommate

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• I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Media, Able, Fans

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