Ralph Bakshi Quotes

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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.
• You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
• 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…
• 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…
• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got…
• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I…
• 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…
• 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…
• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
• 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…
• I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
• 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…
• Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that…
• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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