Latest Lloyd Kaufman Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.