Ralph Bakshi Quotes
- 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.
- Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
- As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
- 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.
- Disney had such a hold on the mind of
- Film has to describe and show.
- I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
- 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.
- I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my 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.
- I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
- I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how
- 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.
- I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
- 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.
- 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.
- Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
- Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
- Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
- My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
- My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
- 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.
- Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
- Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
- 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.
- They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
- 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.
- What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
- 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.
- You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
- A lot of the Japanese films are very well made. Of course, their subject matter tends to interest me more.
- After Coonskin, the industry caught up to me. I didn't want to deal with children anymore. They wanted me to do things like Lord of the Rings.
- 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.
- All these animated films that are being made will eventually start to crash. They will start to eat on each other, and some kid's going to come in with Heavy Traffic 2 and take it all.
- Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
- As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
- As far as the movie end of it goes, I feel very associated with it, because I was the guy who went after the rights.
- Cartoon crudeness should follow up with emotion. That's what I prefer.
- 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.
- Corporate structures try to talk down to children, but they're all run by people who don't know what an animator is. An animator is a very special guy-he's not a machine.
- Disney had such a hold on the mind of
- Everyone thinks today that they would have understood Fritz the Cat in its day, and they would have made the cartoon. There's no way these people I talk to would have ever bought Fritz the Cat!
- Everyone's terrified of even letting me near them.
- Film has to describe and show.
- I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
- 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.
- I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my 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.
- I just gave it the best shot I could, and if I did anything, I think I established some of the character design to look the way Tolkien might have liked them. His daughter certainly loved the way I designed the film.
- I loved my animation company. I kept the same guys in their seats. We became very good friends.
- I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
- I saw a lot of bad ones I don't want to bring up, like Sinbad and the horse picture.
- I started to get giddy on Fritz the Cat, when I suddenly was able to get a pig that was a cop, and this particular other pig was Jewish, and I thought, Oh my God! A Jewish pig? These were major steps forward.
- I think it's impossible to do Tolkien. It's impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about - just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other areas of imagination (that) film can't allow.
- I think Star Wars is the world's greatest movie, but I wish he had done it at another studio at another time.
- I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how
- I was doing the future of animation and even live action.
- I was the guy that went to
- I wasn't asked for the rights to do it, no one's ever spoken to me about it. I'm kind of stunned that they are doing it. Certainly I'm wishing them all the luck in the world on a visual level.
- I went to
- I wore two hats. I eventually quit the business because of it, so I wasn't swept away to that great a degree.
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