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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn’t always funny somewhere else. Lloyd Kaufman Read Quote
I majored in Chinese Studies. I’m probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin. Lloyd Kaufman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Fast Food Nation’ was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don’t eat fast food. Lloyd Kaufman Read Quote
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! Lloyd Kaufman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
