Ralph Bakshi Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.”
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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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“As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings”
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“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.”
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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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“Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.”
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“I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.”
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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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“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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“John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!”
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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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“Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.”
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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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“My good films were independent and my bad films were not.”
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“They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.”
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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.”
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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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“Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.”
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“You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.”
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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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“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 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.”
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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.”
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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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“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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“I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.”
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“I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.”
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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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