Lloyd Kaufman Quotes

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.

I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn't kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I did this little movie I really love called 'Experimenter,' but that took six years to get made and no money.

I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.

The great thing about an anthology is that each year is its own 10-hour movie, and the only requirement is that it's the best 10-hour movie that I can make out of the story.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.