Quotes by Ralph Bakshi

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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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Film has to describe and show.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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 to treat them with love.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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 had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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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.

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Ralph Bakshi

Success

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.

— Ralph Bakshi

Wisdom

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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