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Ralph Bakshi

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Animator

Ralph Bakshi is a renowned animator known for his unique animation style and significant impact on animated films. His works include 'Fritz the Cat', 'Wizards', and 'Fire and Ice', which have had a profound influence in the animation industry.

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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.”

Ifs Art Reason Lines Class Walking Lows Edges Rap Vulgar Vulgarity Believable Graffiti Rap Music Graffiti Art Public Art

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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!”

Knows Funny Science Technology Know How Gun Mice Curtains Futuristic

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

Mean I Can Humor Funny

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“I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.”

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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.”

Wells Looks Fun Differences Illustration Cartoonist Soulful Wacky Uptight

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“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.”

People Looks Kind Character Cities East Coast Amazement East Coast

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“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.”

People Bigs Poor Cities New York New York City Disgusting Poor People High Prices

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

Different Character Sides Different Sides

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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.”

Important Ideas Energy Emotion Believer Animation

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“You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.”

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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.”

Kids Wanted Fantasy Understood Wizards Homage Idiom

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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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“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.”

Knows Years Important Treats Raises Pizza Animated Animator

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“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.”

Lord Cutting Victory Originals Finals Rings Sequence Helm

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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.”

Giving Kind Action Talking Hell Stage Structure Jazz Animation Bedtime

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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.”

Film Cat Rating

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

Art Cycles Animation Resilient Good Art

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

Thinking Want Feelings Running Mother Artist Asks Streets

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

Sake Not Interested

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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.”

Art Fine Paint Mediums Cartoon Animation Fine Arts Cartoonist

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

Feels Jobs Draws

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“I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.”

Film Dies Missing Animation

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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.”

Running Today Guy Company Draws Executives Ghouls Animator Great Company

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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.”

Mind Children Country Whole America Pure Animation Holding On

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

Firsts Problem Today Adults Animation Outrageous Ukulele

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

Made Realizing Lord Rings Not Interested Doing Me

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

Hands Action Film Emotion Sigh Animated Animated Films

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“As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings”

Want Art Feelings Artist

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“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.”

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

Looks Done Department Units Animation Animator

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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.”

Stories Film Faces Crazy Design Traditional Animation Spectacular Animated Animated Films Tarzan Movie

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

Thinking Arrogant

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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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“My good films were independent and my bad films were not.”

Film Independent Good Films

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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.”

World World History Ripped Cartoonist Sweetheart

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“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.”

Trying Levels Quality Boring Emulate Animator Mannerisms

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

Painting Lots Of Money Painting A Picture

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

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About the Author

Born: October 29, 1938
Known for: Animator
Quotes: 39

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