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Ralph Bakshi Biography

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator.

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

Doing Me, Lord, Realize, Realizing, Work

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.

American, Fantasy, Kids, Understood, Wizards

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

Animation, Department, Done, Looks

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

Adults, Problems, Today, Ukulele, Works

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

World, Sweetheart, Cartoonist, History, Say

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

Funny, Humor, Mean, Punch, Tastefully

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.

America, Children, Country, God, Hitler, Hold

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.

Animation, Crazy, Design, Spectacular, Stories

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

Revolutionary, Wrong, Say

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

Interested, Not Interested, Sake, Slickness

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

Action, Emotion, Emotions, Hand, Hands, Prepackaged

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

Continue, Found, Movies, Sold

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.

Cities, City, New York, People, Poor, York

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

Animation, Energy, Ideas, Important

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.

Bob, Cat, Fun, Heavy, Night, Wizards

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

Funny, Futuristic, Gun, Know, Mouse, Science

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.

Art, Cartooning, Class, Edge, Like, Rap

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.

Differences, Extremely, Fun, Illustration, Uptight

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Art, Artist, Feelings, Interpret

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

Jobs, Draws, Feels, Job, Draw

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