Ralph Bakshi Quotes

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Ideas, Important, Energy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Resilient, Animation

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Mother, Running, Artist

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• The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Rap, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Jobs, Draws, Feels

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Country, Children, America

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Kids, Wizards, Fantasy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Differences, Illustration

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Talking, Giving, Jazz

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Sake, Not Interested

  Interview with Ken P, www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Artist, Feelings

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• Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Character, Different, Sides

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• 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, Paint, Fine

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Ukulele, Adults, Today

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Thinking, Arrogant

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Anime, Stories, Hats

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Doing Me, Realizing, Lord

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Crazy, Design, Stories

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Years, Important, Treats

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• 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

  Cat, Film, Rating

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Revolutionary

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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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  World, Sweetheart, Cartoonist

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. December 06, 2000.

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• It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Funny, Science, Gun

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Independent, Film, Good Films

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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