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Top 25 Lloyd Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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!”

2. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.”

4. “Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.”

5. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.”

6. “Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.”

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

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman 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!”

9. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “I majored in Chinese Studies. I’m probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.”

13. “I majored in Chinese Studies. I’m probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn’t always funny somewhere else.”

15. “Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn’t always funny somewhere else.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “Luckily, I’ve never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I’ve never heard, “Here’s $800,000 to remake Sisters.””

16. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn’t believe in it, it would be unworthy.”

17. “I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn’t believe in it, it would be unworthy.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman 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.”

18. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.”

19. “My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.”

— Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Lloyd Kaufman 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.”

21. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “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!”

23. “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

$Lloyd Kaufman Quote: “If you’re an independent, you don’t get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.”$

24. “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

Lloyd Kaufman 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.”

25. “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

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