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Lloyd Kaufman Biography

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet.

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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.

Italian, Knows, Play, Romeo, Shakespeare, Writing

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

Boring, Eat, Fast Food Nation, Food, Yuppies

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.

Making, Take, Three, Two, Years

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

Art, Creator, Creators, Movies, Spirit

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.

Fingerpaint, Hands, Happy, People, Teach, Teacher

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.

Hate, People, Percent, Rabbits, World

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.

Away, Diarrhea, Independent, Kids, Lonely

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

Favorite, Film, My Favorite, Recently, Worked

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

Broadway, Gay, Love, Men

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.

Film, Independent, Job, Jobs, New York

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

Fat People, Fats, Funnier, Happen, Like, People

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

Heard, Job, Jobs, Lucrative, Remakes, Sisters

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

Believe, Ifs, Make, Movie, Unworthy, Would Be

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.

Chaplin, Charlie, Directors, Film, Goofy, Know

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!

Domain, Mickey, People, World, Would Be

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.

Hippie, Interest, People, Real, Starving

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!

Fans, Films, Ford, Roommate, University, Yale

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.

Forget, Hate, Love, May, Never Forget, Troma

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.

America, Art, Believe, Film, Years

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.

Fox, Foxes, Independent, Instances, Same, Tvs