American - Director | October 29, 1938 -
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
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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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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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Film has to describe and show.
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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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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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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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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 draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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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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