Movies Are Art And The Spirit Of

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.