Quotes by Ralph Bakshi - Page 1

Film has to describe and show.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Describe
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I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Art
Artist
Feelings
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You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Cant
Filmmaker
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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Second-Guess
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John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!
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Arrogant
Thinking
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Revolutionary
They Say
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Jobs
Draws
Feels
Draw
Feel Doing More
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Film
Good Films
Independent
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Not Interested
Sake
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Lots Of Money
Painting
Painting A Picture
Pictures
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Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Character
Different
Sides
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Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Funny
Humor
Mean
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Sold
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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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Doing Me
Lord
Not Interested
Realizing
Rings
Work Me Doing
Lord Of The Rings
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It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Funny
Science
Gun
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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.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Firsts
I Can
Admit
Tolkien
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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 / Animator
Lord
Rings
Ended
Jackson
Lord Of The Rings
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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 / Animator
Running
Artist
Mother
Across
Street
Interpret
Thinks
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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 / Animator
Cat
Film
Rating
Fritz
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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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 / Animator
Cartoonist
Sweetheart
World
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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 / Animator
Animation
Film
Missing
Miss
Continuously
Passionately
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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 / Animator
Adults
Animation
Outrageous
Today
Ukulele
Adult
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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 / Animator
Animation
Animator
Department
Done
Looks
Charge
Disney
Unit
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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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Action
Animated
Emotion
Hands
Actions
Watched
Canned
Sighs
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Art
Animation
Cycles
Good Art
Resilient
Art Good Always
Recover
Tremendously
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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 / Animator
Animation
Believer
Emotion
Energy
Ideas
Important
Great Believer
Portrayed
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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.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Art
Animation
Fine
Paint
Best Art Me
Works
Cartooning
Fine Art
Medium
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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.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Quality
Emulate
Levels
Mannerisms
Trying
Animators
Hit
Disney
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I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Character
Cities
People
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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 / Animator
Animated
Important
Pizza
Treats
Years
Animators
Raise
Terry
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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 / Animator
Running
Animator
Executives
Ghouls
Guy
Meant
Draw
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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 / Animator
Animation
Giving
Jazz
Structure
Talking
Classical
Closer
Hell Is
Live Action
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Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.
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New York
Cities
People
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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 / Animator
Kids
Fantasy
Homage
Idiom
Understood
Wizards
American Kids
Tolkien
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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 / Animator
Cutting
Finals
Helm
Lord
Rings
Sequence
Victory
Ending
Lord Of The Rings
Released
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I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Differences
Fun
Illustration
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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.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
America
Animation
Children
Country
Pure
Adolf
Disney
Hold
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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 / Animator
Design
Animated
Crazy
Spectacular
Stories
Traditional
Disney
Tarzan
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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 / Animator
Anime
Hats
Roof
Stories
Rise
Hat
Japanese
Oriental
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The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.
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Art
Class
Rap
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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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Cat
Fun
Night
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