Lloyd Kaufman Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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!”