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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
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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
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Ralph Bakshi
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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
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi
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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
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
Ralph Bakshi
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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
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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
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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.
Ralph Bakshi
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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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
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