Ralph Bakshi Quotes

• You can’t second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

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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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• What’s most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I’m a great believer of energy and emotion.

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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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• They say I’m a revolutionary, but they’re all wrong.

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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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• 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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• Painting pictures didn’t make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

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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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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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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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• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I’m not interested in doing anyone else’s work.

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• Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their animation unit!

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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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• 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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• I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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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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• 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 miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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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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