Ralph Bakshi Quotes

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

Great, Important, Energy

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

Live, Give, Hell

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

Great, Today, Old

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

Good, Art, Animation

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

Mother, Feelings, Artist

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

Best, Art, Fine

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 animation was some sort of pure thing for children.
Ralph Bakshi

God, Mind, Children

Film has to describe and show.
Ralph Bakshi

Show, Film, Describe

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

Interested, Sake

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

Love, Important, Treat

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

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

Films, Cat, Rating

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

Die, Another, Once

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

Thought, Lord, Rights

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

Deep, Victory, Lord

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

Today, Saying, Same

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

Good, Movie, Admit

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

Done, Animation, Charge

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

Work, Made, Else

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

Music, Emotions, Hand

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

Good, Bad, Films

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

Movies, Found, Continue

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

Best, Design, Crazy

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

Money, Painting, Pictures

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

History, Biggest, Sweetheart

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Nationality: American

Born: October 29, 1938

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