Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr.is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 December 1945
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
yale fans roommate
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!
years two three
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,
writing italian play
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.
hate may never-forget
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.
people dollars world
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.
magic digital documentaries
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.
gay men broadway
Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.
somewhere-else comedy
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
yuppies fast-food-nation boring
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
film my-favorite
My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.
new-york jobs independent
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.
real hippie people
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.
art believe years
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.
believe would-be ifs
I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.