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
good-man chinese zombie
I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
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.
film my-favorite
My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.
yuppies fast-food-nation boring
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
yuppies fast-food-nation boring
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
somewhere-else comedy
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
directors goofy film
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.
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.
teacher hands people
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.
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,
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!
christmas people racist
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
jobs remakes heard
Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."
gay men broadway
Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.