Ralph Bakshi Quotes
"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
(Related: American, Fantasy, Kids)
"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
(Related: Old, Today)
"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Art, Animation, Will)
"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Artist, Want)
"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
(Related: Art, Animation, Cartoons)
"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
(Related: God, Thought, America, Animation, Children, Country, Disney, Mind)
"Film has to describe and show."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Film)
"I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness."
- Ralph Bakshi
"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
(Related: Love, Years)
"I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Job)
"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
(Related: Now)
"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
(Related: Thought, Rights)
"You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker."
- Ralph Bakshi
"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
(Related: Design, Animation, Disney)
"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
(Related: Ideas, Animation, Being, Emotion, Emotions, Energy)
"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."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Quality, Disney, Trying)
"They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Wrong)
"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
(Related: American)
"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Animation, Film)
"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Money, Painting)
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Animation, First, Problems, Saying, Today)
"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Movies)
"My good films were independent and my bad films were not."
- Ralph Bakshi
"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Music, Actions, Emotions)
"Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Work)
"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Animation, Disney)
"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
(Related: Action, Animation, Hell, Jazz, Talking, Will, Writers)
"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
(Related: First)
"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
(Related: History, World)