64 Quotes by Ralph Bakshi

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.