Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. Lloyd Kaufman More Quotes by Lloyd Kaufman More Quotes From Lloyd Kaufman 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 fat-people fats people 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 believe years art 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 never-forget hate may 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 independent lonely kids 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 Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators. Lloyd Kaufman creator spirit art 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 I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy. Lloyd Kaufman ifs would-be believe 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 able media fans My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on. Lloyd Kaufman my-favorite film 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 would-be people world Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else. Lloyd Kaufman comedy somewhere-else 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 digital magic way 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 dollars people world The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies. Lloyd Kaufman independent nice art 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 three two years 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 roommate fans yale 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 racist christmas people 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 tvs foxes 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 independent expression believe
