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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit! Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
My good films were independent and my bad films were not. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. Ralph Bakshi American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0
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 American Director More Ralph Bakshi Quotes 0