Ralph Bakshi Quotes

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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Film has to describe and show.

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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

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Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit

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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

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