Lloyd Kaufman Professions : Film director Born : December 30, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Lloyd Kaufman 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 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 hate rabbits people 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 italian play writing 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 remakes heard jobs 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 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 goofy film directors 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 independent new-york jobs Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. Lloyd Kaufman broadway gay men In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! Lloyd Kaufman die society christmas people It is up to us to produce better-quality movies. Lloyd Kaufman us movies up produce 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 society christmas people world That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted. Lloyd Kaufman independent problem country art Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors