Summary
Troma Studios co-founder Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead) has been about do-it-yourself. His new book, Direct Your Own Damn Movie, is the same thing.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to The Treatment. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:15.6 | You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.4 | In 1974, Boyk-Kaukman co-foundedfounded Troma Studios, and the world has never been the same. |
| 0:24.2 | Last time he was here for his book, all I need to know about filmmaking, I learned from |
| 0:27.9 | Making the Toxic Avenger, which he turned into a movie, Terra Firma, and he's back for his new book, |
| 0:32.8 | direct your own damn movie. Lloyd, first of all, it's a pleasure to have you back. Thanks so much for being here. Nice to see Elvis. What I love about what you do, though, is that you treat filmmaking as a true |
| 0:41.3 | collaboration. And almost every collaborator you've ever worked with at some point or another |
| 0:45.0 | comes back, or James Gunn wrote the book with you, the first book. Or in the case of the new book, |
| 0:50.4 | you have so many directors with whom you've worked or also people like Eli Roth talking |
| 0:54.7 | about what you've got to do to get a movie made. Yeah, Eli's great. He's in a few trauma movies, |
| 0:59.3 | and he's seen my brother's Mother's Day, one of your favorites, I know Elvis. He's seen Mother's Day |
| 1:05.9 | 200 times, Eli Roth has. In fact, the crank guys have a movie, Neville Dean and Taylor, who are great |
| 1:12.4 | filmmakers. Crank 2, high voltage. They're terrific. They're in the book with a terrifically |
| 1:19.2 | inspiring interview about just make movies. Just make them. Don't have meetings. Make movies. |
| 1:25.2 | And the Duplas brothers who are in the next book, produce your own damn movie, say the same thing. Don't make meetings. Make movies. And the Duplas brothers who are in the next book, |
| 1:27.6 | produce your own damn movies say the same thing. Don't make meetings. Make movies. |
| 1:30.9 | But that's what you say too. And I think it's kind of an ethos that has really been absorbed by everybody. |
| 1:36.7 | I mean, Eli, in the book, talks about how lessons he's learned just from watching your films |
| 1:40.6 | came to apply to him, but also just about the sheer practicality, the way you make movies inspired him, too. |
| 1:45.5 | Well, I think the key is that I make very personal movies. |
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