Ralph Bakshi Quotes

• I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

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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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• 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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• My movies continue to be found and be sold because there’s something going on in them.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There’s always cycles of good art.

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• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

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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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• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

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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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  Tags in Admit, Athlete, Tolkien, Celebrity

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Classical, Athlete, Jazz, Animation, Closer, Celebrity

Ralph Bakshi (30)

Birth:	29th October, 1938
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Actor, Director, Painter, Producer, Writer

About

Ralph Bakshi is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator.

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