Ralph Bakshi Quotes

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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

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

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

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

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

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

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.

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

Film has to describe and show.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

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.

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

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

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.

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

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

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.

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.

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

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.

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

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

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

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

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

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