Lloyd Kaufman, the creator and head honcho of long-running indie film studio Troma Entertainment, is one of my favorite people in the entire movie industry. I wouldn't even consider myself a huge fan of his company's movies - which usually combine gleefully executed gore, T&A, and other assorted tastelessness with a tongue-in-cheek and often satirical sense of humor - but I admire him for the way he's built an entirely independent, highly successful studio without any help from the majors... and even if his empire is built mostly out of blood and boobs (and occasionally poop), it's still got more class and integrity than any of the big studios can claim.

Kauifman is also, I would assume, a pretty generous guy, as I've seen him show up for cameo roles in literally hundreds of no-budget movies just as a favor to the filmmakers - yet another way in which he sticks up for the little guys while simultaneously sticking it to The Man. And on top of all that, he's one hell of an interview subject, as this Onion AV Club piece certainly speaks to. Chatting with AV Club editor Sean O'Neil as his latest film, the zombie-chicken musical epic Poultrygeist, goes into limited theatrical release, Kaufman cracks jokes about Eric Rohmer, reminisces about his time as a Yale undergrad (I had no idea!), rags on Al Gore, and even offers a surprisingly incisive viewpoint on why movie piracy isn't such a bad thing for independent filmmakers.

It's a terrific read, and even if Poultrygeist isn't your particular cup of chicken doo-doo, you may very well find yourself feeling the same way about Kaufman that I do.