Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
- Ralph Bakshi
Emotions, Like, Films, Canned
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
Art, Which, Works, Cartoons
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
- Ralph Bakshi
Art, Always, Recover, Recovers
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
Movie, About, Films, Animated
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
Love, Treat, Like, Animated
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
Rating, Had, Films, Simpsons
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
Admit, Never, Movie, Tolkien
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
American, Fantasy, Read, Tolkien
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
- Ralph Bakshi
Mother, Artist, Across, Interpret
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
Give, Will, Some, Live Action
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
- Ralph Bakshi
Charge, Unit, Disney, Department
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
Through, Tell, Very, Oriental
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
Mind, Country, Adolf, Animation
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
Ideas, Emotions, Being, Animation
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
- Ralph Bakshi
Had, Having, Works, Animation
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
- Ralph Bakshi
Die, Very, Passionately, Animation
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
Mannerisms, Animators, Many, Levels
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
Deep, Original, Cut, Sequence
You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
- Ralph Bakshi
Yourself, You, Second-Guess, Filmmaker
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
- Ralph Bakshi
Work, Doing, Made, Not Interested
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
- Ralph Bakshi
I Am, Interested, Am, Not Interested
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
World, Sweetheart, Biggest, Cartoonist
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
- Ralph Bakshi
Wrong, Say, Revolutionary, They Say
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
Thought, Lord, Had, 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.
- Ralph Bakshi
Old, Meant, Executives, Animator
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
- Ralph Bakshi
Doing, More, Which, Draw
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
- Ralph Bakshi
Money, Painting, Lot, Pictures
Film has to describe and show.
- Ralph Bakshi
Film, Show, Describe
My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
- Ralph Bakshi
Movies, Going, Found, Sold
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