American - Director | December 30, 1945 -
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
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Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
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My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.
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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!
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I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
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It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
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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.
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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.
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Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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