“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.” IfsKnowsWritingHas BeensPlayAgeItalianJuliet Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“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!” PeopleIfsWorldShouldWould BeMiceDomainMickeyPublic Domain Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“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.” IfsTvsIndependentInstanceFoxesFractions Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.” IfsBelieveWould BeI BelieveI Believe InUnworthy Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsIdeasHardKidsCan DoSingingLonelyIndependentDancingIdiotChickensZombieGraphicDukesYaleColumbiaPicklesSinging And DancingDiarrheaLonely World Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsEnoughMillionsHundredDollarsMillion Dollars Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“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.” IfsWayMagicDigitalDocumentaries Author:Lloyd Kaufman