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Ralph Bakshi
American
Director
About the author
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,
American
Director
#Ending
#Deep
#Victory
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
Director
#Kids
#American
#Fantasy
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,
American
Director
#Today
#Old
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Will
#Art
#Animation
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Want
#Mother
#Artist
#Feelings
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,
American
Director
#Art
#Cartoons
#Animation
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,
American
Director
#God
#Children
#Thought
#Country
#Mind
#Disney
#America
#Animation
Film has to describe and show.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Film
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
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,
American
Director
#Love
#Years
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#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.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Now
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,
American
Director
#Thought
#Rights
You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
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,
American
Director
#Disney
#Design
#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,
American
Director
#Being
#Ideas
#Emotions
#Energy
#Emotion
#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,
American
Director
#Trying
#Disney
#Quality
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Wrong
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,
American
Director
#American
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Film
#Animation
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Money
#Painting
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Problems
#Saying
#Today
#First
#Animation
My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Movies
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Emotions
#Actions
#Music
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Work
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Ralph Bakshi,
American
Director
#Disney
#Animation
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,
American
Director
#Action
#Will
#Hell
#Writers
#Jazz
#Talking
#Animation
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,
American
Director
#First
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,
American
Director
#World
#History